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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Diachrony.
(b) Ideology.
(c) Expressionism.
(d) Hermeneutics.

2. 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) Anthony Burgess.
(b) Edwin A. Abbott.
(c) Sigmund Freud.
(d) Michel Foucault.

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

4. What is thecritical approach which uses the methods and findings of the science of linguistics in the analysis of literary texts?
(a) Stylistics.
(b) Grammatology.
(c) Ambiguity.
(d) Intersubjectivity.

5. A poem of which author is provided by Peter Barry as an example of ecocriticism?
(a) Geoffrey Chaucer.
(b) D.H. Lawrence.
(c) Vladimir Nabokov.
(d) Thomas Hardy.

6. The chapter "Narratology" explains that Aristotle offered types of psychic narrative with ________'s plot specifics and ________'s tools to tell the story.
(a) Galileo Galilei / Kepler
(b) Plato / Aristophenes
(c) T.S. Eliot / Proust
(d) Propp / Genette.

7. 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) Census line.
(b) Soviet line.
(c) Moscow line.
(d) Independent line.

8. Which of the following terms is defined as the view that, in spite of the connections between culture and economics, art has a degree of independence from economic forces?
(a) Relative autonomy.
(b) Écriture.
(c) Indeterminacy.
(d) Foregrounding.

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

10. The panopticon was a design for a circular prison conceived by the eighteenth-century utilitarian ________.
(a) Ray Bradbury.
(b) Sigmund Freud.
(c) Jeremy Bentham.
(d) Anthony Burgess.

11. The institutional acceptance of the term "queer" dates to a 1990 conference on "queer theory" at what major university?
(a) University of New York.
(b) University of California.
(c) University of New Mexico.
(d) University of Florida.

12. Who is credited with saying that the textuality of history is "an intensified willingness to read all of the textual traces of the past with the attention traditionally conferred only on literary texts"?
(a) Greenblatt.
(b) Dutton.
(c) Louis.
(d) Montrose.

13. The chapter "New Historicism and Cultural Materialism" explains that the practice of giving ________ to literary and non-literary material is the first and major difference between the "new" and the "old" historicism.
(a) Equal weighting.
(b) Deep structure.
(c) Catharsis.
(d) Emotive language.

14. 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) Poverty.
(b) Social class.
(c) State power.
(d) Immigration.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the chapter titled "Stylistics," whom does Peter Barry credit with inventing the term "under-lexicalization"?

2. Stylistics is the modern version of the ancient discipline known as ________, which taught its students how to structure an argument.

3. The narrator explains that narratology studies how narratives, or stories, creates ________.

4. 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"?

5. 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.

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