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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 does Peter Barry credit with partially defusing the conflict between heterosexual feminists and lesbians in an important essay which introduced the notion of the "lesbian continuum"?
(a) Bonnie Zimmerman.
(b) Anne Koedt.
(c) Adrienne Rich.
(d) Muriel Spark.

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

3. In the chapter titled "Narratology", ________ means slow telling where an author stages a tale for readers whereas ________ means relating where the narrator summarizes events without trying to create an illusion.
(a) Paradigm / paradigmatic.
(b) Langue / parole.
(c) Mimesis / diegesis.
(d) Metonymy / metaphor .

4. In the following statement found in the chapter "New Historicism and Cultural Materialism," what does the word "panoptic" mean: "Michel Foucault's pervasive image of the state is that of 'panoptic'"?
(a) All-hearing.
(b) All-seeing.
(c) All-knowing.
(d) All-mighty.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Peter Barry, what is the subject of narratology common to all story-telling?

2. Who argued the fluidity of identity, including sexual identity in their highly influential "Epistemology of the Closet"?

3. In the chapter titled "Stylistics," whom does Peter Barry credit with inventing the term "under-lexicalization"?

4. According to the chapter titled "Marxist Criticism," what was the name of the group that had flourished in the 1920s until disbanded by the Party, even though their work was not strictly Marxist in spirit?

5. W.B. Yeats was a member of the ________ ruling class in ________, according to the narrator in the chapter titled "Postcolonial Criticism."

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does ecocriticism study? What is another term for ecocriticism?

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

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

5. What do ecocritics do according to Peter Barry?

6. How does stylistics differ from standard close reading?

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

8. Explain what liberal humanism and stylistics have in common.

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

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

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