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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) Brooker.
(b) Burke.
(c) Butler.
(d) Browning.

2. In Percy Bysshe Shelley's ________(1821) saw poetry as essentially engaged in what a group of twentieth-century Russian critics later called "defamiliarization."
(a) Queen Mab.
(b) A Defence of Poetry.
(c) Cenci.
(d) The Necessity of Atheism.

3. 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 Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis.
(b) The Signification of the Phallus.
(c) Fetishism: the Symbolic, the Imaginary and the Real.
(d) The Insistence of the Letter.

4. According to the narrator in the Introduction, the ________ probably saw the high-water mark of literary theory.
(a) 1990s.
(b) 1980s.
(c) 1970s.
(d) 1960s.

5. Author Peter Barry informs the reader that the feminist literary criticism of today was the direct product of the "women's movement" of the ________.
(a) 1910s.
(b) 1980s.
(c) 1930s.
(d) 1960s.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Peter Barry in the chapter titled "Post-Structuralism and Deconstruction," post-structuralist critics seek to show that the text is characterized by ________ rather than unity.

2. The chapter "Psychoanalytic Criticism" states that ________ is the notion that sexuality begins not at puberty, with physical maturing, but in infancy, especially through the infant's relationship with the mother.

3. All of the following religious believers were not allowed to attend university in England in the nineteenth century except which one?

4. The narrator explains that the first prestigious name in English writing about literature was that of ________, who wrote his "Apology for Poetry" in about 1580.

5. All of the following authors were considered some of the literary "high priests" of the modernist movement according to the narrator in the chapter titled "Postmodernism," except for which one?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was I.A. Richards?

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

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

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

5. What does the formula SQ3R mean? Explain.

6. 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."

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

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

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

10. What is the purpose of displacement and condensation?

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