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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of the Nigerian novelist who published his first novel, "Things Fall Apart," in 1958, and was criticized by an early reviewer for affecting identity with African villagers?
(a) Kurt Vonnegut.
(b) Chinua Achebe.
(c) William Faulkner.
(d) J.R.R. Tolkien.

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

3. 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) U.S.A. (trilogy).
(c) An American Tragedy.
(d) The Wreched of the Earth.

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

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

6. 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) Confucius.
(b) Sophocles.
(c) Plato.
(d) Aristotle.

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

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

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

10. The narrator believes that after the moment of theory there comes, inevitably, the ________ of theory, when it ceases to be the exclusive concern of a dedicated minority and enters the intellectual bloodstream.
(a) Month.
(b) Year.
(c) Hour.
(d) Week.

11. 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) Emotive language.
(b) Equal weighting.
(c) Catharsis.
(d) Deep structure.

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

13. ________ focalization is classic narrative called omniscient narration, according to the narrator in the chapter titled "Narratology."
(a) Zero.
(b) Internal.
(c) Spiritual.
(d) External.

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

15. What was the name of the American journal that was considered the "house magazine" of the new historicism?
(a) Representations.
(b) Competence.
(c) Dramatic unities.
(d) Diegesis.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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"?

3. The narrator details that ________ believed that some speech was reported while other speech was mimetic, transposed, or narratized.

4. According to Peter Barry in the chapter titled "Postcolonial Criticism," Frantz Fanon was a ________ from Martinique.

5. ________ studies the relationship between literature and physical environment.

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