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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Continuum.
(c) Archival.
(d) Historic.

2. What is the term used to describe the study of narrative structures that combines characteristics and is derived from structuralism and linguistic theory?
(a) Narratology.
(b) Ideology.
(c) Scientology.
(d) Semiology.

3. The narrator explains that conventional ________ is often seen by the stylistician as impressionistic, intuitive, and randomized.
(a) Constative language.
(b) Emotive language.
(c) Surface structure.
(d) Close reading.

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

5. 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) The Poverty of Philosophy.
(b) The Communist Manifesto.
(c) The German Ideology.
(d) Das Kapital.

6. In the following statement found in the chapter "New Historicism and Cultural Materialism," what does the word "panoptic" mean: "Michel Foucault's pervasive image of the state is that of 'panoptic'"?
(a) All-knowing.
(b) All-hearing.
(c) All-seeing.
(d) All-mighty.

7. Which of the following essays is an example of new historicism in practice written by Louis Montrose?
(a) The Sun Also Rises.
(b) Heart of Darkness.
(c) Lord of the Flies.
(d) A Midsummer Night's Dream.

8. 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) Marx.
(b) Freud.
(c) Gates.
(d) Said.

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

10. 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.

11. 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) Tennyson.
(d) Keats.

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

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

14. Which of the following two writers were stigmatized as exemplars of "bourgeois decadence"?
(a) Jane Austen and Stephanie Meyers.
(b) Proust and Joyce.
(c) Aesop and Aeschylus.
(d) Aristotle and Plato.

15. 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) Emotive language.
(d) Catharsis.

Short Answer Questions

1. Barry structures the work of Genette on a range of ________ questions to detail the process of telling.

2. The chapter "Narratology" explains that Aristotle offered types of psychic narrative with ________'s plot specifics and ________'s tools to tell the story.

3. 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.

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

5. 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"?

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