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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which Greek philosopher identified three elements in a plot, fault or character-defect, recognition, and reversal, which are all incumbent on the hero or heroine?
(a) Plato.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Confucius.
(d) Sophocles.

2. Which of the following realism terms best illustrates the straight realism which was imposed in the 1930s?
(a) Confederate Realism.
(b) Democratic Realism.
(c) Socialist Realism.
(d) Republican Realism.

3. Who does the narrator describe as a prominent contributor to "Inside/Outside," who pointed out that "identity categories," like "gay" and "straight," "tend to be instruments of regulatory regimes"?
(a) Judith Butler.
(b) Rock Meyer.
(c) Diana Fuss.
(d) Eve Sedgwick.

4. ________ studies the relationship between literature and physical environment.
(a) Phonocentrism.
(b) New criticism.
(c) Pre-Raphaelitism.
(d) Ecocriticism.

5. 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.
(a) Wiley.
(b) Fowler.
(c) Sebeok.
(d) Chaucer.

6. 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.

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

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

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

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

11. According to the narrator, post-colonial criticism gained currency through the influence of all the following books except for which one?
(a) In Other Worlds.
(b) Nation and Narration.
(c) The Studs Lonigan Trilogy.
(d) The Empire Writes Back.

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

13. 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) Black.
(b) White.
(c) Red.
(d) Gray.

14. ________ is a co-founder of ecocriticism with Harold Fromm that developed in the early-1990s in the USA.
(a) Robert Heinlein.
(b) George Orwell.
(c) Frank Herbert.
(d) Cheryll Glotfelty.

15. Who is credited with saying that the textuality of history is "an intensified willingness to read all of the textual traces of the past with the attention traditionally conferred only on literary texts"?
(a) Greenblatt.
(b) Montrose.
(c) Louis.
(d) Dutton.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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.

2. In the chapter titled "Narratology," Peter Barry uses ________ rather than ________ to incorporate style, pace, and viewpoint, packaged to cause the desired effect.

3. According to the narrator, post-colonial critics would discuss the representation of what country in Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness"?

4. Which of the following two writers were stigmatized as exemplars of "bourgeois decadence"?

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

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