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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 the narrator describe as a prominent contributor to "Inside/Outside," who pointed out that "identity categories," like "gay" and "straight," "tend to be instruments of regulatory regimes"?
(a) Judith Butler.
(b) Diana Fuss.
(c) Eve Sedgwick.
(d) Rock Meyer.

2. Ecocritics expand literary practice to emphasize factual writing with ________ work like travel writing and regional literature.
(a) Pseudostatements.
(b) Recuperation.
(c) Topographical.
(d) Surrealism.

3. A poem of which author is provided by Peter Barry as an example of ecocriticism?
(a) Geoffrey Chaucer.
(b) D.H. Lawrence.
(c) Vladimir Nabokov.
(d) Thomas Hardy.

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?
(a) German Formalists.
(b) Irish Formalists.
(c) Korean Formalists.
(d) Russian Formalists.

5. According to the chapter "New Historicism and Cultural Materialism," the notion of the state as all-powerful and all-seeing stems from the post-structuralist cultural historian ________.
(a) Edwin A. Abbott.
(b) Sigmund Freud.
(c) Anthony Burgess.
(d) Michel Foucault.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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.

2. ________ read major works from an ecocritic point of view and extend the application of concepts to areas other than the natural world.

3. The chapter "Stylistics" states that the stop-start quality can be removed and cohesion achieved by what linguists call "pronominalization," using ________.

4. ________ focalization is classic narrative called omniscient narration, according to the narrator in the chapter titled "Narratology."

5. The institutional acceptance of the term "queer" dates to a 1990 conference on "queer theory" at what major university?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the "Vulgar Marxism"?

2. What is the purpose of lesbian/gay criticism according to the "Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader"?

3. What is lesbian feminism?

4. What is narratology?

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

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

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

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

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