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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. A book in which author Peter Barry claimed to properly inaugurate post-colonial criticism was Edward Said's ________, which was a specific expose of the Eurocentric universalism which took for granted both the superiority of that which was European or Western.
(a) Existentialism.
(b) Phallocentrism.
(c) Pre-Raphaelitism.
(d) Orientalism.

2. Who wrote the following statement, which is found in the chapter "Postcolonial Criticism": "We cannot easily say that since Mansfield Park is a novel, its affiliations with a particularly sordid history are irrelevant or transcended, not only because it is irresponsible to say that, but because we know too much to say so with bad faith"?
(a) Said.
(b) Freud.
(c) Gates.
(d) Marx.

3. Stylistics is the modern version of the ancient discipline known as ________, which taught its students how to structure an argument.
(a) Neoclassicism.
(b) Neoplatonism.
(c) Rhetoric.
(d) Philology.

4. According to the narrator, post-colonial critics would discuss the representation of what country in Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness"?
(a) Ireland.
(b) Africa.
(c) America.
(d) Australia.

5. Which of the following people broke away from feminism and made new allegiances, in particular, with gay men rather than with other women?
(a) Paulina Palmer.
(b) Anne Koedt.
(c) Bonnie Zimmerman.
(d) Muriel Spark.

Short Answer Questions

1. Ecocriticism was a term that was applied to the work previously known as what form of writing?

2. Karl Marx is described by Peter Barry as being a German ________.

3. Who is credited with saying that the textuality of history is "an intensified willingness to read all of the textual traces of the past with the attention traditionally conferred only on literary texts"?

4. In the chapter titled "Lesbian / Gay Criticism," it states that lesbian and gay literary theory emerged prominently as a distinct field only in the ________.

5. Dollimore and Sinfield defined the term "Political Shakespeare" as designating a critical method which has ________ characteristics.

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was Karl Marx?

2. According to the narrator, what is one significant effect of post-colonial criticism?

3. What are the ambitions of stylistics as defined by Peter Barry?

4. How does stylistics differ from standard close reading?

5. Briefly explain what lesbian/gay critics do.

6. What are the four characteristics that define the term "Political Shakespeare"?

7. What is discourse as it relates to new historicism?

8. What is narratology?

9. What four areas of ecocriticism does Peter Barry identify?

10. Explain the meaning of "adopt," "adapt," and "adept" phases as they relate to post-colonial criticism.

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