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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In the chapter titled "Stylistics," whom does Peter Barry credit with inventing the term "under-lexicalization"?
(a) Fletcher.
(b) Sligh.
(c) Roderick.
(d) Fowler.

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

4. According to Peter Barry at the beginning of the book "Beginning Theory," many of the chapters in the book were based on material Barry has used in the "Introduction to Literature" courses at what university?
(a) LSU.
(b) ASU.
(c) TSU.
(d) FSU.

5. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels were the join founders of the school of________ according to the Chapter titled "Marxist Criticism."
(a) Thought.
(b) Englightenment.
(c) Reason.
(d) Expectations.

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

7. 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) Montrose.
(b) Dutton.
(c) Greenblatt.
(d) Louis.

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

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

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

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

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

13. 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.

14. Who does Peter Barry credit with partially defusing the conflict between heterosexual feminists and lesbians in an important essay which introduced the notion of the "lesbian continuum"?
(a) Adrienne Rich.
(b) Bonnie Zimmerman.
(c) Muriel Spark.
(d) Anne Koedt.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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."

2. ________ studies the relationship between literature and physical environment.

3. Stylistics is the modern version of the ancient discipline known as ________, which taught its students how to structure an argument.

4. According to the narrator, post-colonial criticism gained currency through the influence of all the following books except for which one?

5. The narrator explains that narratology studies how narratives, or stories, creates ________.

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