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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 post-colonial critics reject the claims to universalism made on behalf of canonical _________ literature and seek to show its limitations of outlook.
(a) Northern.
(b) Western.
(c) Southern.
(d) Eastern.

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

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

5. Who argued the fluidity of identity, including sexual identity in their highly influential "Epistemology of the Closet"?
(a) Judith Butler.
(b) Rock Meyer.
(c) Diana Fuss.
(d) Eve Sedgwick.

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

7. The chapter "Narratology" explains that Aristotle offered types of psychic narrative with ________'s plot specifics and ________'s tools to tell the story.
(a) Plato / Aristophenes
(b) T.S. Eliot / Proust
(c) Propp / Genette.
(d) Galileo Galilei / Kepler

8. Peter Barry affirms that Friedrich Engels was a German ________.
(a) Philosopher.
(b) Criminologist.
(c) Sociologist.
(d) Radiologist.

9. 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) Mimesis / diegesis.
(c) Langue / parole.
(d) Metonymy / metaphor .

10. The ancestry of post-colonial criticism can be traced to Frantz Fanon's ________, published in French in 1961, and voicing what might be called "cultural resistance" to France's African empire.
(a) U.S.A. (trilogy).
(b) An American Tragedy.
(c) The Grapes of Wrath.
(d) The Wreched of the Earth.

11. Which of the following essays is an example of new historicism in practice written by Louis Montrose?
(a) Heart of Darkness.
(b) The Sun Also Rises.
(c) Lord of the Flies.
(d) A Midsummer Night's Dream.

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

13. What is thecritical approach which uses the methods and findings of the science of linguistics in the analysis of literary texts?
(a) Ambiguity.
(b) Intersubjectivity.
(c) Stylistics.
(d) Grammatology.

14. The British critic ________ described cultural materialism as "a politicized form of historiography."
(a) W. Somerset Maugham.
(b) Robertson Davies.
(c) Charles de Lint.
(d) Graham Holderness.

15. Ecocritics emphasize writers who highlight ________ as their subject matter.
(a) Nature.
(b) Feminists.
(c) Children.
(d) Animals.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the chapter titled "Lesbian / Gay Criticism," it states that lesbian and gay literary theory emerged prominently as a distinct field only in the ________.

2. Peter Barry states that ________ is best understood by seeing it initially in the context of its own origins within feminism in the 1980s.

3. Barry structures the work of Genette on a range of ________ questions to detail the process of telling.

4. According to the narrator, Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar's "The Madwoman in the Attic" contained ________ passing reference to lesbianism.

5. Who wrote the 1986 book "Linguistic Criticism," which characterized linguistic criticism as "objective description of texts"?

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