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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. New historicists focus attention on issues of ________ and how it is maintained, on patriarchal structures and their perpetuation, and on the process of colonization, with its accompanying "mind-set."
(a) Social class.
(b) Immigration.
(c) State power.
(d) Poverty.

2. The institutional acceptance of the term "queer" dates to a 1990 conference on "queer theory" at what major university?
(a) University of New Mexico.
(b) University of New York.
(c) University of California.
(d) University of Florida.

3. According to the chapter "New Historicism and Cultural Materialism," the notion of the state as all-powerful and all-seeing stems from the post-structuralist cultural historian ________.
(a) Edwin A. Abbott.
(b) Michel Foucault.
(c) Sigmund Freud.
(d) Anthony Burgess.

4. Peter Barry explains that post-colonial criticism emerges as a distinct category only in the ________.
(a) 1990s.
(b) 1950s.
(c) 1970s.
(d) 2000s.

5. In the chapter titled "Lesbian / Gay Criticism," it states that lesbian and gay literary theory emerged prominently as a distinct field only in the ________.
(a) 2000s.
(b) 1990s.
(c) 1970s.
(d) 1960s.

6. The narrator believes that after the moment of theory there comes, inevitably, the ________ of theory, when it ceases to be the exclusive concern of a dedicated minority and enters the intellectual bloodstream.
(a) Hour.
(b) Week.
(c) Year.
(d) Month.

7. The chapter "Stylistics" states that the stop-start quality can be removed and cohesion achieved by what linguists call "pronominalization," using ________.
(a) Adjectives.
(b) Verbs.
(c) Pronouns.
(d) Nouns.

8. Which of the following two writers were stigmatized as exemplars of "bourgeois decadence"?
(a) Jane Austen and Stephanie Meyers.
(b) Proust and Joyce.
(c) Aristotle and Plato.
(d) Aesop and Aeschylus.

9. All of the following are part of the four areas identified as "outdoor environment" in the Chapter "Ecocriticism," except for which one?
(a) Countryside.
(b) Wastelands.
(c) Wilderness.
(d) Scenic sublime.

10. According to the chapter "Narratology," Russian formalist Vladimir Propp identified how many actions in a tale with seven spheres of action to animate?
(a) 23.
(b) 31.
(c) 13.
(d) 63.

11. ________ read major works from an ecocritic point of view and extend the application of concepts to areas other than the natural world.
(a) Ecocritics.
(b) Ecocentrists.
(c) Ecologists.
(d) Ecofeminists.

12. The narrator explains that conventional ________ is often seen by the stylistician as impressionistic, intuitive, and randomized.
(a) Surface structure.
(b) Emotive language.
(c) Close reading.
(d) Constative language.

13. Who does Peter Barry credit with partially defusing the conflict between heterosexual feminists and lesbians in an important essay which introduced the notion of the "lesbian continuum"?
(a) Muriel Spark.
(b) Anne Koedt.
(c) Bonnie Zimmerman.
(d) Adrienne Rich.

14. ________ focalization is classic narrative called omniscient narration, according to the narrator in the chapter titled "Narratology."
(a) Internal.
(b) Spiritual.
(c) Zero.
(d) External.

15. What was the name of the American journal that was considered the "house magazine" of the new historicism?
(a) Dramatic unities.
(b) Representations.
(c) Diegesis.
(d) Competence.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the Nigerian novelist who published his first novel, "Things Fall Apart," in 1958, and was criticized by an early reviewer for affecting identity with African villagers?

2. What was the name of Martin Taylor's poems that Mark Lilly used in his straight-forward essay that surveyed the range of First World War poetry?

3. A poem of which author is provided by Peter Barry as an example of ecocriticism?

4. Which of the following essays is an example of new historicism in practice written by Louis Montrose?

5. According to Peter Barry at the beginning of the book "Beginning Theory," many of the chapters in the book were based on material Barry has used in the "Introduction to Literature" courses at what university?

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