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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. According to the narrator, post-colonial critics would discuss the representation of what country in Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness"?
(a) America.
(b) Ireland.
(c) Australia.
(d) Africa.

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

3. Who argued the fluidity of identity, including sexual identity in their highly influential "Epistemology of the Closet"?
(a) Rock Meyer.
(b) Eve Sedgwick.
(c) Judith Butler.
(d) Diana Fuss.

4. According to the chapter "Narratology," Russian formalist Vladimir Propp identified how many actions in a tale with seven spheres of action to animate?
(a) 31.
(b) 63.
(c) 13.
(d) 23.

5. In the chapter titled "Stylistics," whom does Peter Barry credit with inventing the term "under-lexicalization"?
(a) Fowler.
(b) Sligh.
(c) Roderick.
(d) Fletcher.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following realism terms best illustrates the straight realism which was imposed in the 1930s?

3. According to Marxist literary criticism, what term is best defined as an outlook, values, tacit assumptions, half-realized allegiances, etc. and having a major bearing on what is written by a member of a social class?

4. The British critic ________ described cultural materialism as "a politicized form of historiography."

5. According to Peter Barry, the term "new historicism" was coined by the ________ critic Stephen Greenblattt.

Short Essay Questions

1. What do ecocritics do according to Peter Barry?

2. Discuss the three elements Aristotle identified in a plot. What key point does Barry suggest about timing as it relates to plot?

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

4. What are some of the advantages of new historicism?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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