View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. The narrator explains that narratology studies how narratives, or stories, creates ________.
(a) Icons.
(b) Meaning.
(c) Money.
(d) History.

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

5. Which of the following two writers were stigmatized as exemplars of "bourgeois decadence"?
(a) Aristotle and Plato.
(b) Aesop and Aeschylus.
(c) Proust and Joyce.
(d) Jane Austen and Stephanie Meyers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following essays is an example of new historicism in practice written by Louis Montrose?

2. According to the narrator, Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar's "The Madwoman in the Attic" contained ________ passing reference to lesbianism.

3. 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"?

4. In the chapter titled "Lesbian / Gay Criticism," it states that lesbian and gay literary theory emerged prominently as a distinct field only in the ________.

5. Who wrote the following statement, which is found in the chapter "Postcolonial Criticism": "We cannot easily say that since Mansfield Park is a novel, its affiliations with a particularly sordid history are irrelevant or transcended, not only because it is irresponsible to say that, but because we know too much to say so with bad faith"?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Briefly explain new historicism as it is described by the author.

3. Explain the meaning of "adopt," "adapt," and "adept" phases as they relate to post-colonial criticism.

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

5. What is narratology?

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

7. How does stylistics differ from standard close reading?

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 688 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample