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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Peter Barry states that ________ is best understood by seeing it initially in the context of its own origins within feminism in the 1980s.
(a) Endangered feminism.
(b) Radical feminism.
(c) Beginning feminism.
(d) Lesbian feminism.

3. Dollimore and Sinfield defined the term "Political Shakespeare" as designating a critical method which has ________ characteristics.
(a) Two.
(b) Seven.
(c) Four.
(d) Nine.

4. According to the narrator, post-colonial critics would discuss the representation of what country in Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness"?
(a) America.
(b) Africa.
(c) Australia.
(d) Ireland.

5. In the phrase "the archival continuum," an important difference between old and new historicisms is encapsulated in the word ________, for that word indicates that new historicism is indeed a historicist rather than a historical movement.
(a) Continuum.
(b) New.
(c) Archival.
(d) Historic.

6. 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?
(a) Kurt Vonnegut.
(b) William Faulkner.
(c) J.R.R. Tolkien.
(d) Chinua Achebe.

7. Throughout the nineteenth century, linguistics was usually known as ________, and was almost entirely historical in emphasis.
(a) Philology.
(b) Narratology.
(c) Semiology.
(d) Phenomenology.

8. 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) Metonymy / metaphor .
(b) Mimesis / diegesis.
(c) Langue / parole.
(d) Paradigm / paradigmatic.

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

10. Peter Barry states that in the 1990s a second, less essentialist, notion of lesbianism emerged, within the sphere of what is now known as ________.
(a) Hybrid theory.
(b) Reception theory.
(c) Queer theory.
(d) Speech act theory.

11. According to the chapter titled "Postcolonial Criticism," in its earliest phase, post-colonial criticism took as its main subject matter ________ representations of colonial countries and criticized these for their limitations and their bias.
(a) White.
(b) Black.
(c) Red.
(d) Gray.

12. Stylistics is the modern version of the ancient discipline known as ________, which taught its students how to structure an argument.
(a) Neoclassicism.
(b) Rhetoric.
(c) Neoplatonism.
(d) Philology.

13. A book in which author Peter Barry claimed to properly inaugurate post-colonial criticism was Edward Said's ________, which was a specific expose of the Eurocentric universalism which took for granted both the superiority of that which was European or Western.
(a) Pre-Raphaelitism.
(b) Orientalism.
(c) Phallocentrism.
(d) Existentialism.

14. The panopticon was a design for a circular prison conceived by the eighteenth-century utilitarian ________.
(a) Ray Bradbury.
(b) Anthony Burgess.
(c) Sigmund Freud.
(d) Jeremy Bentham.

15. Karl Marx is described by Peter Barry as being a German ________.
(a) Philosopher.
(b) Scientist.
(c) Zoologist.
(d) Criminologist.

Short Answer Questions

1. Ecocritics emphasize writers who highlight ________ as their subject matter.

2. Who wrote the following statement, which is found in the chapter "Postcolonial Criticism": "We cannot easily say that since Mansfield Park is a novel, its affiliations with a particularly sordid history are irrelevant or transcended, not only because it is irresponsible to say that, but because we know too much to say so with bad faith"?

3. Which of the following people broke away from feminism and made new allegiances, in particular, with gay men rather than with other women?

4. W.B. Yeats was a member of the ________ ruling class in ________, according to the narrator in the chapter titled "Postcolonial Criticism."

5. What was the name of the American journal that was considered the "house magazine" of the new historicism?

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