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

2. All of the following are part of the four areas identified as "outdoor environment" in the Chapter "Ecocriticism," except for which one?
(a) Wilderness.
(b) Wastelands.
(c) Countryside.
(d) Scenic sublime.

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

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

5. According to the chapter "Narratology," Russian formalist Vladimir Propp identified how many actions in a tale with seven spheres of action to animate?
(a) 31.
(b) 13.
(c) 23.
(d) 63.

Short Answer Questions

1. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels were the join founders of the school of________ according to the Chapter titled "Marxist Criticism."

2. ________ studies the relationship between literature and physical environment.

3. Throughout the nineteenth century, linguistics was usually known as ________, and was almost entirely historical in emphasis.

4. The narrator explains that conventional ________ is often seen by the stylistician as impressionistic, intuitive, and randomized.

5. 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.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does stylistics differ from standard close reading?

4. What was the "Vulgar Marxism"?

5. Who was Karl Marx?

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

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

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

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

10. What were some of the influences on early Marxist thinking?

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