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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. In the chapter titled "Stylistics," whom does Peter Barry credit with inventing the term "under-lexicalization"?
(a) Fowler.
(b) Fletcher.
(c) Roderick.
(d) Sligh.

2. Which of the following terms is defined as the view that, in spite of the connections between culture and economics, art has a degree of independence from economic forces?
(a) Foregrounding.
(b) Relative autonomy.
(c) Indeterminacy.
(d) Écriture.

3. Which Greek philosopher identified three elements in a plot, fault or character-defect, recognition, and reversal, which are all incumbent on the hero or heroine?
(a) Confucius.
(b) Plato.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Sophocles.

4. According to the narrator, what is another term for ecocriticism?
(a) Wind studies.
(b) Earth studies.
(c) Green studies.
(d) Water studies.

5. Author Peter Barry uses an excerpt from which author to illustrate the analysis of narratologists?
(a) Edgar Allan Poe
(b) James Joyce.
(c) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(d) D.H. Lawrence.

Short Answer Questions

1. During the 1980s, linguists consulted and incorporated non-linguistic material in which came to be called the ________, which had a limited degree of eclecticism and was less likely to claim that it alone studied literature in an objective way.

2. Which of the following authors wrote the essay "What Has Never Been: An Overview of Lesbian Feminist Criticism" and attacked "essentialism," pointing out the way "the perceptual screen of hetero-sexism" prevented any consideration of lesbian issues in pioneering feminist writing?

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

4. Lesbian theory that broke away from feminism and made new allegiances, in particular, with gay men rather than with other women is called "queer theory" or ________.

5. The ancestry of post-colonial criticism can be traced to Frantz Fanon's ________, published in French in 1961, and voicing what might be called "cultural resistance" to France's African empire.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Briefly define "mimesis" and "diegesis" as determined by Peter Barry.

4. Briefly discuss the ancestry of post-colonial criticism.

5. Briefly discuss what post-colonial critics do according to the narrator.

6. What was the "Vulgar Marxism"?

7. What is the aim of Marxism, according to the narrator?

8. In what way does the narrator say queer theory differs from lesbian feminism?

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

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

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