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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. Author Peter Barry suggests that the reader uses a useful form of intensive reading known as ________.
(a) NACL2.
(b) H2OO.
(c) NH2P.
(d) SQ3R.

2. Who was the first critic to develop a "reader-centered" approach to literature?
(a) Sigmund Freud.
(b) Plato.
(c) Sophocles.
(d) Aristotle.

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

4. What is the name of the early nineteenth-century American writer who received considerable attention from both structuralists and post-structuralists?
(a) Washington Irving.
(b) Victor Hugo.
(c) Mark Twain.
(d) Edgar Allan Poe.

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?
(a) T.S. Eliot.
(b) Virginia Woolf.
(c) Gertrude Stein.
(d) John Milton.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Peter Barry say was the earliest work of theory written by Aristotle?

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

3. The narrator reveals that the modern period began with the ________.

4. ________ is defined as a discipline which has always tended to emphasize the difficulty of achieving secure knowledge about things.

5. According to the narrator in the chapter "Psychoanalytic Criticism," many of Sigmund Freud's ideas concern aspects of ________.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How is French feminism different from American feminism?

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

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

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

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

8. Explain F.D. Maurice's opinions of literature as detailed in the chapter "Theory Before Theory--Liberal Humanism."

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

10. Compare post-colonialism to postmodernism as discussed in the chapter "Theory Before Theory--Liberal Humanism."

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