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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. The narrator informs the reader that in the early 1980s, two new forms of political/historical criticism emerged, new historicism from ________ and cultural materialism from ________.
(a) The United States / Britain.
(b) Russia / the United States.
(c) Britain / Russia.
(d) France / Germany.

2. In the Introduction, what university did author Peter Barry say he attended?
(a) North Carolina State University.
(b) Harvard University.
(c) Yale University.
(d) London University.

3. The chapter titled "Psychoanalytic Criticism" discusses the use by the unconscious of these linguistic means of self-expression is part of ________'s evidence for the claim that the unconscious is structured like a language.
(a) Barry.
(b) Lacan.
(c) Washington.
(d) Murray.

4. Which of the following terms best fit the following definition: "a form of literary criticism which uses some of the techniques of psychoanalysis in the interpretation of literature"?
(a) Applied criticism.
(b) Psychoanalytic criticism.
(c) Impressionistic criticism.
(d) Practical criticism.

5. Who was the major theorist of postmodernism and French writer of the book "Simulations"?
(a) Jean Baudrillard.
(b) Stephane Mallarme.
(c) Jean-Francois Lyotard.
(d) Andre Gide.

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 where the only two universities in England in the nineteenth century?

3. I.A. Richards pioneered the technique called ________ which was also the title of his book in 1929.

4. What is the name of the early nineteenth-century American writer who received considerable attention from both structuralists and post-structuralists?

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. In the first half of the twentieth century, who, according to Barry, were the critical names in British literary theory? Who were at Cambridge University in the 1920s and 1930s?

2. What are the three stages of the deconstructive process? Explain.

3. Explain how literary theory, after Sir Phillip Sydney, was significantly advanced in the eighteenth century.

4. How does Disneyland fit into the concept of hyperreality according to Baurdrillard?

5. What did Ferdinand de Saussure say about linguistic structures which the structuralists found so interesting?

6. In which way is post-structuralism more fundamental than structuralism?

7. What is the most basic difference between liberal humanist and structuralist reading?

8. How is French feminism different from American feminism?

9. Discuss what higher education was like in England until the first quarter of the nineteenth century, according to the chapter titled "Theory Before Theory--Liberal Humanism."

10. Who was Jean Baudrillard? How was he associated with "the loss of the real"?

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