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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote the 1986 book "Linguistic Criticism," which characterized linguistic criticism as "objective description of texts"?
(a) Fowler.
(b) Clinton.
(c) Madison.
(d) Eliot.

2. 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) Phenomenology.
(b) Rhetoric.
(c) New stylistics.
(d) Neoplatonism.

3. Who wrote the following statement, which is found in the chapter "Postcolonial Criticism": "We cannot easily say that since Mansfield Park is a novel, its affiliations with a particularly sordid history are irrelevant or transcended, not only because it is irresponsible to say that, but because we know too much to say so with bad faith"?
(a) Said.
(b) Freud.
(c) Gates.
(d) Marx.

4. According to Peter Barry in the chapter titled "Postcolonial Criticism," Frantz Fanon was a ________ from Martinique.
(a) Paleontologist.
(b) Podiatrist.
(c) Psychiatrist.
(d) Cardiologist.

5. 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) Speech act theory.
(b) Queer theory.
(c) Hybrid theory.
(d) Reception theory.

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

7. 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) An American Tragedy.
(b) U.S.A. (trilogy).
(c) The Grapes of Wrath.
(d) The Wreched of the Earth.

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

9. 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.
(a) Western.
(b) Eastern.
(c) Northern.
(d) Southern.

10. 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 German Ideology.
(c) The Poverty of Philosophy.
(d) The Communist Manifesto.

11. According to the narrator, what is another term for ecocriticism?
(a) Water studies.
(b) Green studies.
(c) Wind studies.
(d) Earth studies.

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

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

14. 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.
(a) New.
(b) Historic.
(c) Archival.
(d) Continuum.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The British critic ________ described cultural materialism as "a politicized form of historiography."

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.

3. What was the name of Martin Taylor's poems that Mark Lilly used in his straight-forward essay that surveyed the range of First World War poetry?

4. The narrator explains that conventional ________ is often seen by the stylistician as impressionistic, intuitive, and randomized.

5. According to the chapter "Narratology," Russian formalist Vladimir Propp identified how many actions in a tale with seven spheres of action to animate?

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