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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) Eve Sedgwick.
(b) Diana Fuss.
(c) Judith Butler.
(d) Rock Meyer.

2. The narrator explains that conventional ________ is often seen by the stylistician as impressionistic, intuitive, and randomized.
(a) Constative language.
(b) Close reading.
(c) Emotive language.
(d) Surface structure.

3. ________ is a co-founder of ecocriticism with Harold Fromm that developed in the early-1990s in the USA.
(a) Frank Herbert.
(b) George Orwell.
(c) Robert Heinlein.
(d) Cheryll Glotfelty.

4. In the chapter titled "Narratology," Peter Barry uses ________ rather than ________ to incorporate style, pace, and viewpoint, packaged to cause the desired effect.
(a) Metonymy / metaphor.
(b) Fancy / imagination.
(c) Carnival / carnivalesque.
(d) Discourse / plot.

5. The narrator details that ________ believed that some speech was reported while other speech was mimetic, transposed, or narratized.
(a) Plato.
(b) Genette.
(c) Galileo Galilei.
(d) Aristotle.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Peter Barry at the beginning of the book "Beginning Theory," many of the chapters in the book were based on material Barry has used in the "Introduction to Literature" courses at what university?

3. What was the name of the American journal that was considered the "house magazine" of the new historicism?

4. Peter Barry affirms that Friedrich Engels was a German ________.

5. Ecocriticism was a term that was applied to the work previously known as what form of writing?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Who was Karl Marx?

8. What was the "Vulgar Marxism"?

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

10. What is discourse as it relates to new historicism?

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