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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 argued the fluidity of identity, including sexual identity in their highly influential "Epistemology of the Closet"?
(a) Judith Butler.
(b) Rock Meyer.
(c) Diana Fuss.
(d) Eve Sedgwick.

2. The narrator explains that those abroad who were sympathetic to the ideas of Communism tried to follow the ________ on matters where an official Party policy existed, hence the international influence of the Leninist views.
(a) Independent line.
(b) Moscow line.
(c) Soviet line.
(d) Census line.

3. Dollimore and Sinfield defined the term "Political Shakespeare" as designating a critical method which has ________ characteristics.
(a) Nine.
(b) Four.
(c) Seven.
(d) Two.

4. ________ read major works from an ecocritic point of view and extend the application of concepts to areas other than the natural world.
(a) Ecocritics.
(b) Ecologists.
(c) Ecofeminists.
(d) Ecocentrists.

5. 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 ________.
(a) Homosexual concepts.
(b) Homosexual education.
(c) Heterosexual examinations.
(d) Queer studies.

Short Answer Questions

1. Peter Barry states that in the 1990s a second, less essentialist, notion of lesbianism emerged, within the sphere of what is now known as ________.

2. According to the chapter titled "Postcolonial Criticism," in its earliest phase, post-colonial criticism took as its main subject matter ________ representations of colonial countries and criticized these for their limitations and their bias.

3. According to the narrator, what is another term for ecocriticism?

4. New historicists focus attention on issues of ________ and how it is maintained, on patriarchal structures and their perpetuation, and on the process of colonization, with its accompanying "mind-set."

5. The British critic ________ described cultural materialism as "a politicized form of historiography."

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was Karl Marx?

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

3. How does Barry use the term "discourse" in relation to narratology? Who else used such term according to Barry?

4. Briefly explain new historicism as it is described by the author.

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

6. Discuss the three elements Aristotle identified in a plot. What key point does Barry suggest about timing as it relates to plot?

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

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

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

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

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