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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. 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) Queer studies.
(d) Heterosexual examinations.

2. 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) Of Human Bondage.
(b) The Doll's House.
(c) The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.
(d) Lads: Love Poetry of the Trenches.

3. According to Peter Barry, the aim of Marxism was to bring about a ________ society, based on the common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange.
(a) Lawless.
(b) Homeless.
(c) Thoughtless.
(d) Classless.

4. The narrator believes that after the moment of theory there comes, inevitably, the ________ of theory, when it ceases to be the exclusive concern of a dedicated minority and enters the intellectual bloodstream.
(a) Month.
(b) Year.
(c) Hour.
(d) Week.

5. Who wrote the 1986 book "Linguistic Criticism," which characterized linguistic criticism as "objective description of texts"?
(a) Madison.
(b) Clinton.
(c) Fowler.
(d) Eliot.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is thecritical approach which uses the methods and findings of the science of linguistics in the analysis of literary texts?

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

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

4. Ecocritics emphasize writers who highlight ________ as their subject matter.

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What do ecocritics do according to Peter Barry?

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

5. Briefly explain what lesbian/gay critics do.

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

7. How does stylistics differ from standard close reading?

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

9. Who was Karl Marx?

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

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