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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. Peter Barry explains that post-colonial criticism emerges as a distinct category only in the ________.
(a) 1950s.
(b) 2000s.
(c) 1970s.
(d) 1990s.

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?
(a) Adrienne Rich.
(b) Bonnie Zimmerman.
(c) Muriel Spark.
(d) Anne Koedt.

3. ________ focalization is classic narrative called omniscient narration, according to the narrator in the chapter titled "Narratology."
(a) External.
(b) Internal.
(c) Spiritual.
(d) Zero.

4. What is the term used to describe the study of narrative structures that combines characteristics and is derived from structuralism and linguistic theory?
(a) Semiology.
(b) Narratology.
(c) Scientology.
(d) Ideology.

5. What was the name of Martin Taylor's poems that Mark Lilly used in his straight-forward essay that surveyed the range of First World War poetry?
(a) The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.
(b) The Doll's House.
(c) Of Human Bondage.
(d) Lads: Love Poetry of the Trenches.

Short Answer Questions

1. The chapter "Stylistics" states that the stop-start quality can be removed and cohesion achieved by what linguists call "pronominalization," using ________.

2. According to the narrator, post-colonial criticism gained currency through the influence of all the following books except for which one?

3. What was the name of the American journal that was considered the "house magazine" of the new historicism?

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

5. Which of the following essays is an example of new historicism in practice written by Louis Montrose?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Is stylistics confined to just the analysis of literature? Explain.

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

5. Who are Cheryll Glotfelty and Harold Fromm? Explain the ecocriticism movement.

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

7. What are some of the advantages of new historicism?

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

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

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

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