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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What term is used in the Introduction means not politically radical, and hence generally evasive and non-committal on political issues?
(a) Conservative.
(b) Communists.
(c) Liberal.
(d) Socialists.

2. Which of the following works did the narrator believe to be the most important Lacanian text for literary students and which was first delivered in 1957 to a "lay" audience of philosophy students?
(a) The Insistence of the Letter.
(b) The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis.
(c) The Signification of the Phallus.
(d) Fetishism: the Symbolic, the Imaginary and the Real.

3. According to the narrator in the Introduction, what two introductions to theory sources deal with the problems of teaching or learning theory?
(a) Literary Studies in Action and Texts and Contexts.
(b) The Oval Portrait and The End of English.
(c) The Use of English and The English Review.
(d) After Theory and The Critical Decade.

4. The narrator suggests that liberal humanists believe in ________ as something fixed and constant which great literature expresses.
(a) Human nature.
(b) Diegesis.
(c) Horizon of expectation.
(d) Idealism.

5. What was the term used in the Introduction that is defined as the science of signs?
(a) Semiotics.
(b) Logocentrism.
(c) Mimesis.
(d) Phenomenology.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Peter Barry claim described the feminist change in the late 1970s as a shift of attention from "andro-texts" to "gyno-texts"?

2. What does Peter Barry say was the earliest work of theory written by Aristotle?

3. The thesis that the language is "masculine" was developed by ________ in the early 1980s in her book "Man Made Language," which also argues that language is not a neutral medium.

4. In Julia Kristeva's essay "The System and the Speaking Subject," the ________ aspect is associated with authority, order, fathers, repression, and control.

5. Which of the following works of T.S. Eliot was a collage of juxtaposed, incomplete stories, or fragments of stories according to the chapter titled "Postmodernism"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was the representation of women in literature felt to be one of the most important forms of socialization?

2. What are some of the important characteristics of the literary modernism practice?

3. Do liberal humanists use the term "human nature"? Explain.

4. What is a theoretical difference between structuralist and post-structuralist?

5. Explain what Peter Barry means when he informs the reader "that it is much better to read intensely in theory than to read widely".

6. Who was I.A. Richards?

7. What is the purpose of displacement and condensation?

8. What is "ecriture feminine"?

9. What are the five (5) codes identified by Barthes in S/Z? Explain.

10. Discuss Sigmund Freud's concept of "dream work."

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