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

2. Peter Barry states that ________ is best understood by seeing it initially in the context of its own origins within feminism in the 1980s.
(a) Beginning feminism.
(b) Radical feminism.
(c) Endangered feminism.
(d) Lesbian feminism.

3. Which of the following realism terms best illustrates the straight realism which was imposed in the 1930s?
(a) Republican Realism.
(b) Confederate Realism.
(c) Socialist Realism.
(d) Democratic Realism.

4. Ecocritics emphasize writers who highlight ________ as their subject matter.
(a) Feminists.
(b) Animals.
(c) Nature.
(d) Children.

5. According to Peter Barry in the chapter titled "Postcolonial Criticism," Frantz Fanon was a ________ from Martinique.
(a) Podiatrist.
(b) Paleontologist.
(c) Cardiologist.
(d) Psychiatrist.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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.

2. Karl Marx is described by Peter Barry as being a German ________.

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

4. The term "reification" was used in Karl Marx's major work ________, and it concerned the way, when capitalist goals and questions of profit and loss are paramount, workers are bereft of their full humanity and are though of as "hands" or "the labor force."

5. Who is credited with saying that the textuality of history is "an intensified willingness to read all of the textual traces of the past with the attention traditionally conferred only on literary texts"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do ecocritics do according to Peter Barry?

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

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

4. Briefly explain what lesbian/gay critics do.

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

6. How does stylistics differ from standard close reading?

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

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

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

10. What is lesbian feminism?

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