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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 language does the narrator describe as being a Romance language that takes most of its words directly from Latin, and lacks the reassuring Anglo-Saxon layer of vocabulary?
(a) English.
(b) Spanish.
(c) French.
(d) German.

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) Matthew Arnold.
(b) Thomas Malory.
(c) John Webster.
(d) Edwin Abbott.

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) Liberal.
(c) Communists.
(d) Conservative.

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

5. The chapter titled "Postmodernism" states the term "postmodernism" was used in the 1930s, but its current sense and vogue can be said to have begun with ________'s "The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge."
(a) Mies van der Rohe.
(b) Jean-Francois Lyotard.
(c) Jean Baudrillard.
(d) L.S. Lowry.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sigmund Freud believed that a ________ was an escape-hatch or safety-valve through which repressed desires, fears, or memories seek an outlet into the conscious mind.

2. 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"?

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. What was the term used in the Introduction that is defined as the science of signs?

5. David Lodge, Professor of English at Birmingham, combined the ideas of structuralism with more traditional approaches in which one of his books?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why was Freudian interpretation interesting to literary critics?

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

5. Who was I.A. Richards?

6. What are the three particular areas that are debated and disagreed upon when it comes to feminist criticism?

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

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

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

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

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