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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the narrator, what is another term for ecocriticism?
(a) Wind studies.
(b) Earth studies.
(c) Green studies.
(d) Water studies.

2. 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) Poverty.
(b) Immigration.
(c) Social class.
(d) State power.

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

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

5. 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) Orientalism.
(b) Pre-Raphaelitism.
(c) Existentialism.
(d) Phallocentrism.

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

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

8. 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) Month.
(d) Year.

9. In the chapter titled "Narratology," Peter Barry uses ________ rather than ________ to incorporate style, pace, and viewpoint, packaged to cause the desired effect.
(a) Metonymy / metaphor.
(b) Carnival / carnivalesque.
(c) Discourse / plot.
(d) Fancy / imagination.

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

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

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

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

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

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) Bonnie Zimmerman.
(b) Anne Koedt.
(c) Muriel Spark.
(d) Adrienne Rich.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the following statement found in the chapter "New Historicism and Cultural Materialism," what does the word "panoptic" mean: "Michel Foucault's pervasive image of the state is that of 'panoptic'"?

2. 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.

3. The chapter "Narratology" explains that Aristotle offered types of psychic narrative with ________'s plot specifics and ________'s tools to tell the story.

4. During the 1980s, linguists consulted and incorporated non-linguistic material in which came to be called the ________, which had a limited degree of eclecticism and was less likely to claim that it alone studied literature in an objective way.

5. The narrator explains that conventional ________ is often seen by the stylistician as impressionistic, intuitive, and randomized.

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