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

Multiple Choice 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?
(a) Plato.
(b) Sophocles.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Confucius.

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

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

4. 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?
(a) Expressionism.
(b) Diachrony.
(c) Ideology.
(d) Hermeneutics.

5. 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?
(a) Syntax.
(b) Trace.
(c) Cohesion.
(d) Trope.

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

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

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

9. 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.

10. 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) FSU.
(b) LSU.
(c) TSU.
(d) ASU.

11. 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) Historic.
(b) New.
(c) Archival.
(d) Continuum.

12. 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?
(a) The Doll's House.
(b) Of Human Bondage.
(c) The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.
(d) Lads: Love Poetry of the Trenches.

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

14. Stylistics is the modern version of the ancient discipline known as ________, which taught its students how to structure an argument.
(a) Philology.
(b) Rhetoric.
(c) Neoplatonism.
(d) Neoclassicism.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Author Peter Barry uses an excerpt from which author to illustrate the analysis of narratologists?

2. 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.

3. According to the chapter titled "Marxist Criticism," what was the name of the group that had flourished in the 1920s until disbanded by the Party, even though their work was not strictly Marxist in spirit?

4. 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.

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

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