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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Author Peter Barry uses an excerpt from which author to illustrate the analysis of narratologists?
(a) Edgar Allan Poe
(b) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(c) D.H. Lawrence.
(d) James Joyce.

2. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels were the join founders of the school of________ according to the Chapter titled "Marxist Criticism."
(a) Thought.
(b) Expectations.
(c) Englightenment.
(d) Reason.

3. W.B. Yeats was a member of the ________ ruling class in ________, according to the narrator in the chapter titled "Postcolonial Criticism."
(a) Amish / Sweden.
(b) Aethist / America.
(c) Jewish / Poland.
(d) Protestant / Ireland.

4. Who argued in 1905 that literature must become an instrument of the party and that "literature must become Party literature"?
(a) Reis.
(b) Lenin.
(c) Keats.
(d) Tennyson.

5. Ecocritics expand literary practice to emphasize factual writing with ________ work like travel writing and regional literature.
(a) Pseudostatements.
(b) Topographical.
(c) Surrealism.
(d) Recuperation.

6. Who wrote the 1986 book "Linguistic Criticism," which characterized linguistic criticism as "objective description of texts"?
(a) Madison.
(b) Clinton.
(c) Fowler.
(d) Eliot.

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

8. Barry structures the work of Genette on a range of ________ questions to detail the process of telling.
(a) Two.
(b) Nine.
(c) Six.
(d) Four.

9. The chapter "Postcolonial Criticism" states that post-colonial critics celebrate hybridity and ________, which is the situation whereby individuals and groups belong simultaneously to more than one culture.
(a) Cultural polyvalency.
(b) Constative language.
(c) Decorum.
(d) Affective fallacy.

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

11. According to Peter Barry, the term "new historicism" was coined by the ________ critic Stephen Greenblattt.
(a) German.
(b) Russian.
(c) Italian.
(d) American.

12. What is the term used to describe the study of narrative structures that combines characteristics and is derived from structuralism and linguistic theory?
(a) Semiology.
(b) Narratology.
(c) Scientology.
(d) Ideology.

13. In the chapter titled "Narratology", ________ means slow telling where an author stages a tale for readers whereas ________ means relating where the narrator summarizes events without trying to create an illusion.
(a) Paradigm / paradigmatic.
(b) Langue / parole.
(c) Metonymy / metaphor .
(d) Mimesis / diegesis.

14. 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) 1960s.
(b) 1990s.
(c) 1970s.
(d) 2000s.

15. Which of the following authors wrote the essay "What Has Never Been: An Overview of Lesbian Feminist Criticism" and attacked "essentialism," pointing out the way "the perceptual screen of hetero-sexism" prevented any consideration of lesbian issues in pioneering feminist writing?
(a) Adrienne Rich.
(b) Bonnie Zimmerman.
(c) Muriel Spark.
(d) Anne Koedt.

Short Answer Questions

1. The gist of "Style in Language," edited by ________, is to claim that linguistics offers a more objective way of studying literature, and the book tends to set up "a confrontation of camps" between literary and language studies.

2. Which of the following realism terms best illustrates the straight realism which was imposed in the 1930s?

3. The British critic ________ described cultural materialism as "a politicized form of historiography."

4. 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?

5. The narrator explains that narratology studies how narratives, or stories, creates ________.

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