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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to the chapter "Stylistics," in medieval times rhetoric played an important part in training people for the ________, the legal profession, and political or diplomatic life.
(a) School.
(b) Church.
(c) Library.
(d) Court.

3. According to the chapter "New Historicism and Cultural Materialism," the notion of the state as all-powerful and all-seeing stems from the post-structuralist cultural historian ________.
(a) Sigmund Freud.
(b) Michel Foucault.
(c) Edwin A. Abbott.
(d) Anthony Burgess.

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

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

6. According to Peter Barry, the aim of Marxism was to bring about a ________ society, based on the common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange.
(a) Lawless.
(b) Classless.
(c) Thoughtless.
(d) Homeless.

7. According to the narrator, all of the following authors were major proponents of ecocriticism except for whom?
(a) Geoffrey Chaucer.
(b) Henry David Thoreau.
(c) Margaret Fuller.
(d) Ralph Waldo Emerson.

8. 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.

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

10. Which of the following terms is defined as the view that, in spite of the connections between culture and economics, art has a degree of independence from economic forces?
(a) Relative autonomy.
(b) Indeterminacy.
(c) Foregrounding.
(d) Écriture.

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

12. The narrator details that ________ believed that some speech was reported while other speech was mimetic, transposed, or narratized.
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Plato.
(c) Galileo Galilei.
(d) Genette.

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

14. 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) 31.
(c) 13.
(d) 23.

15. 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.
(a) Rhetoric.
(b) New stylistics.
(c) Phenomenology.
(d) Neoplatonism.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Peter Barry, stylistics developed in what century?

2. 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?

3. The institutional acceptance of the term "queer" dates to a 1990 conference on "queer theory" at what major university?

4. Ecocriticism was a term that was applied to the work previously known as what form of writing?

5. According to Marxist literary criticism, what term is best defined as an outlook, values, tacit assumptions, half-realized allegiances, etc. and having a major bearing on what is written by a member of a social class?

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