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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. Who wrote the following statement on the mythologized misrepresentation of the United States and Disneyland: "All its [the USA's] values are exalted here, in miniature and comic-strip form. Embalmed and pacified"?
(a) Burke.
(b) Brooker.
(c) Browning.
(d) Butler.

2. The chapter titled Theory Before Theory--Liberal Humanism states that the conventional reading of the origins of the subject of English is that this kind of thinking begins with who?
(a) Thomas Malory.
(b) John Webster.
(c) Edwin Abbott.
(d) Matthew Arnold.

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

4. 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) Lacan.
(b) Washington.
(c) Barry.
(d) Murray.

5. According to the narrator in the chapter "Psychoanalytic Criticism," who did Sigmund Freud link the situation of Hamlet in the play to?
(a) God.
(b) Oedipus.
(c) Zeus.
(d) Shakespeare.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the narrator say was the founder of a method of studying English which is still the norm today?

2. Sigmund Freud connects infantile sexuality to the ________, in which the male infant conceives the desire to eliminate the father and become the sexual partner of the mother.

3. Author Peter Barry explains that all of the following are part of the three stages of the deconstructive process except for which one?

4. Barry states in the chapter titled "Feminist Criticism" that the British "socialist feminist" tradition produced its key works in the ________.

5. Who was the first critic to develop a "reader-centered" approach to literature?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Briefly summarize author Peter Barry's own introduction to literary theory as seen in "My own stock-taking" found within the "Introduction."

3. Discuss how J.A. Cuddon describes postmodernism in his "Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory."

4. Briefly explain what post-structuralist critics do.

5. What is the purpose of displacement and condensation?

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

7. Who was I.A. Richards?

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

9. Explain what author Peter Barry means when he says the frame of mind he would recommend his readers is threefold.

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

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