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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. According to the narrator, all of the following authors were major proponents of ecocriticism except for whom?
(a) Henry David Thoreau.
(b) Margaret Fuller.
(c) Ralph Waldo Emerson.
(d) Geoffrey Chaucer.

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

5. 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) Metonymy / metaphor .
(c) Paradigm / paradigmatic.
(d) Langue / parole.

6. Peter Barry states that ________ is best understood by seeing it initially in the context of its own origins within feminism in the 1980s.
(a) Radical feminism.
(b) Endangered feminism.
(c) Lesbian feminism.
(d) Beginning feminism.

7. The narrator details that ________ believed that some speech was reported while other speech was mimetic, transposed, or narratized.
(a) Plato.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Galileo Galilei.
(d) Genette.

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

9. The narrator explains that those abroad who were sympathetic to the ideas of Communism tried to follow the ________ on matters where an official Party policy existed, hence the international influence of the Leninist views.
(a) Independent line.
(b) Census line.
(c) Soviet line.
(d) Moscow line.

10. 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?
(a) Adrienne Rich.
(b) Bonnie Zimmerman.
(c) Anne Koedt.
(d) Muriel Spark.

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

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

13. 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) Keats.
(d) Tennyson.

14. According to the chapter titled "Postcolonial Criticism," in its earliest phase, post-colonial criticism took as its main subject matter ________ representations of colonial countries and criticized these for their limitations and their bias.
(a) Red.
(b) Black.
(c) White.
(d) Gray.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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."

2. Dollimore and Sinfield defined the term "Political Shakespeare" as designating a critical method which has ________ characteristics.

3. Peter Barry affirms that Friedrich Engels was a German ________.

4. Ecocritics expand literary practice to emphasize factual writing with ________ work like travel writing and regional literature.

5. What is thecritical approach which uses the methods and findings of the science of linguistics in the analysis of literary texts?

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