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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Peter Barry states that in the 1990s a second, less essentialist, notion of lesbianism emerged, within the sphere of what is now known as ________.
(a) Reception theory.
(b) Queer theory.
(c) Speech act theory.
(d) Hybrid theory.

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?
(a) William Faulkner.
(b) Chinua Achebe.
(c) Kurt Vonnegut.
(d) J.R.R. Tolkien.

3. According to the narrator, Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar's "The Madwoman in the Attic" contained ________ passing reference to lesbianism.
(a) 20.
(b) 3.
(c) 1.
(d) 9.

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

5. 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) Church.
(b) Library.
(c) Court.
(d) School.

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

7. The chapter "Stylistics" states that the stop-start quality can be removed and cohesion achieved by what linguists call "pronominalization," using ________.
(a) Verbs.
(b) Nouns.
(c) Adjectives.
(d) Pronouns.

8. W.B. Yeats was a member of the ________ ruling class in ________, according to the narrator in the chapter titled "Postcolonial Criticism."
(a) Protestant / Ireland.
(b) Amish / Sweden.
(c) Jewish / Poland.
(d) Aethist / America.

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

10. Karl Marx is described by Peter Barry as being a German ________.
(a) Scientist.
(b) Criminologist.
(c) Philosopher.
(d) Zoologist.

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

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

13. The narrator explains that narratology studies how narratives, or stories, creates ________.
(a) Icons.
(b) Meaning.
(c) History.
(d) Money.

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

15. According to Peter Barry, the term "new historicism" was coined by the ________ critic Stephen Greenblattt.
(a) Russian.
(b) Italian.
(c) German.
(d) American.

Short Answer 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.

2. Who argued in 1905 that literature must become an instrument of the party and that "literature must become Party literature"?

3. Which of the following term is about "lexical items" (words) which cross the boundaries between sentences, binding them into a single continuous utterance, even though they are grammatically separate sentences?

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

5. 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"?

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