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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The ancestry of post-colonial criticism can be traced to Frantz Fanon's ________, published in French in 1961, and voicing what might be called "cultural resistance" to France's African empire.
(a) The Grapes of Wrath.
(b) The Wreched of the Earth.
(c) U.S.A. (trilogy).
(d) An American Tragedy.

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

4. The term "reification" was used in Karl Marx's major work ________, and it concerned the way, when capitalist goals and questions of profit and loss are paramount, workers are bereft of their full humanity and are though of as "hands" or "the labor force."
(a) Das Kapital.
(b) The Communist Manifesto.
(c) The Poverty of Philosophy.
(d) The German Ideology.

5. 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.
(a) Constative language.
(b) Affective fallacy.
(c) Decorum.
(d) Cultural polyvalency.

6. Which of the following two writers were stigmatized as exemplars of "bourgeois decadence"?
(a) Jane Austen and Stephanie Meyers.
(b) Proust and Joyce.
(c) Aristotle and Plato.
(d) Aesop and Aeschylus.

7. Which of the following people broke away from feminism and made new allegiances, in particular, with gay men rather than with other women?
(a) Muriel Spark.
(b) Bonnie Zimmerman.
(c) Anne Koedt.
(d) Paulina Palmer.

8. 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) Edwin A. Abbott.
(c) Michel Foucault.
(d) Anthony Burgess.

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

10. In the chapter titled "Narratology", ________ means slow telling where an author stages a tale for readers whereas ________ means relating where the narrator summarizes events without trying to create an illusion.
(a) Mimesis / diegesis.
(b) Paradigm / paradigmatic.
(c) Langue / parole.
(d) Metonymy / metaphor .

11. 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) Immigration.
(d) State power.

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

13. Throughout the nineteenth century, linguistics was usually known as ________, and was almost entirely historical in emphasis.
(a) Philology.
(b) Semiology.
(c) Phenomenology.
(d) Narratology.

14. In the chapter titled "Lesbian / Gay Criticism," it states that lesbian and gay literary theory emerged prominently as a distinct field only in the ________.
(a) 1990s.
(b) 1970s.
(c) 1960s.
(d) 2000s.

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

Short Answer 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?

2. 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.

3. In the phrase "the archival continuum," an important difference between old and new historicisms is encapsulated in the word ________, for that word indicates that new historicism is indeed a historicist rather than a historical movement.

4. 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?

5. W.B. Yeats was a member of the ________ ruling class in ________, according to the narrator in the chapter titled "Postcolonial Criticism."

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