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

2. Barry states in the chapter titled "Feminist Criticism" that the British "socialist feminist" tradition produced its key works in the ________.
(a) Late 1950s.
(b) Mid 1980s.
(c) Late 1990s.
(d) Early 1970s.

3. David Lodge, Professor of English at Birmingham, combined the ideas of structuralism with more traditional approaches in which one of his books?
(a) Beyond Structuralism.
(b) Transforming Structuralism.
(c) Beginning Structuralism.
(d) Working with Structuralism.

4. What where the only two universities in England in the nineteenth century?
(a) Oxford and Cambridge.
(b) Kingston and Liverpool.
(c) Birmingham and Buckingham.
(d) Manchester and Winchester.

5. Who said the following quote found in the chapter titled Theory Before Theory--Liberal Humanism: "We are told that the study of literature 'cultivates the taste, educates the sympathies and enlarges the mind'"?
(a) Elie Wiesel.
(b) Lewis Carroll.
(c) Edward Freeman.
(d) Oscar Wilde.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the chapter titled Theory Before Theory--Liberal Humanism, structuralism and post-structuralism originated in what country?

2. According to the narrator in the chapter titled "Feminist Criticism, the "Anglo-American" tradition appeared when?

3. The chapter "Feminist Criticism" informs the reader that "for her notion of the basic opposition between semiotic and the symbolic Kristeva was indebted to Jacques Lacan and his distinction between two realms, the ________ and the ________.

4. The crucial essay "The Death of the Author" written in 1968 was the "hinge" around which ________ turned from structuralism to post-structuralism.

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

4. According to the "Introduction," what does the saying that "after the moment of theory comes the 'hour' of theory" mean?

5. 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."

6. Explain the Oedipus complex of Sigmund Freud.

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

8. What is structuralism? Where and when did it begin?

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

10. What is "ecriture feminine"?

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