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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Author Peter Barry explains that all of the following are part of the three stages of the deconstructive process except for which one?
(a) Linguistic.
(b) Verbal.
(c) Textual.
(d) Visual.

2. Author Peter Barry informs the reader that the feminist literary criticism of today was the direct product of the "women's movement" of the ________.
(a) 1960s.
(b) 1980s.
(c) 1930s.
(d) 1910s.

3. In Julia Kristeva's essay "The System and the Speaking Subject," the ________ aspect is associated with authority, order, fathers, repression, and control.
(a) Symbolic.
(b) Semiotic.
(c) Natural.
(d) Imaginary.

4. Which of the following best fits the definition of a discipline which has always been inherently confident about the possibility of establishing objective knowledge?
(a) Linguistics.
(b) Formalism.
(c) Hermeneutics.
(d) Mimesis.

5. Whom does author Peter Barry say was a French psychoanalyst whose work had an extraordinary influence upon many aspects of recent literary theory and who began his career by taking a medical degree and then training in psychiatry in the 1920s?
(a) John Maynard Keynes.
(b) Marcus Tullius Cicero.
(c) Euripides.
(d) Jacques Lacan.

6. David Lodge, Professor of English at Birmingham, combined the ideas of structuralism with more traditional approaches in which one of his books?
(a) Transforming Structuralism.
(b) Beyond Structuralism.
(c) Working with Structuralism.
(d) Beginning Structuralism.

7. What language does the narrator describe as being a Romance language that takes most of its words directly from Latin, and lacks the reassuring Anglo-Saxon layer of vocabulary?
(a) English.
(b) German.
(c) Spanish.
(d) French.

8. The chapter titled Theory Before Theory--Liberal Humanism states that the conventional reading of the origins of the subject of English is that this kind of thinking begins with who?
(a) John Webster.
(b) Thomas Malory.
(c) Edwin Abbott.
(d) Matthew Arnold.

9. Lacan argues that the two "dream work" mechanisms identified by Freud correspond to the basic poles of language, identified by the linguist Roman Jakobson, to ________ and ________.
(a) Paradigm / paradigmatic.
(b) Langue/parole.
(c) Metaphor / metonymy.
(d) Intention / intentionality.

10. What term does the narrator explain was a popular term in deconstructive criticism and literally means an impasse?
(a) Aporia.
(b) Parole.
(c) Langue.
(d) Imagism.

11. Barry states in the chapter titled "Feminist Criticism" that the British "socialist feminist" tradition produced its key works in the ________.
(a) Late 1990s.
(b) Late 1950s.
(c) Mid 1980s.
(d) Early 1970s.

12. ________ is defined as a discipline which has always tended to emphasize the difficulty of achieving secure knowledge about things.
(a) Psychology.
(b) Philosophy.
(c) Criminology.
(d) Sociology.

13. What example did Saussure use to explain what he meant by saying that there are no intrinsic, fixed meanings in language?
(a) 8.25 Geneva to Paris.
(b) Ulysses.
(c) 1984.
(d) Animal Farm.

14. According to the narrator in the Introduction, the term "liberal humanism" became current in what decade?
(a) 1970s.
(b) 1930s.
(c) 1920s.
(d) 1910s.

15. Sigmund Freud connects infantile sexuality to the ________, in which the male infant conceives the desire to eliminate the father and become the sexual partner of the mother.
(a) Oedipus complex.
(b) Hamlet complex.
(c) Othello complex.
(d) Aphrodite complex.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the early nineteenth-century American writer who received considerable attention from both structuralists and post-structuralists?

2. What was the name of the American literature lecturer mentioned in the Introduction who died in January of 1995?

3. According to Plato, "a state of language anterior to the Word" is called ________.

4. ________ is defined as the meanings of words according to Saussure.

5. According to the narrator in the chapter "Psychoanalytic Criticism," many of Sigmund Freud's ideas concern aspects of ________.

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