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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. Which of the following essays is an example of new historicism in practice written by Louis Montrose?
(a) Heart of Darkness.
(b) A Midsummer Night's Dream.
(c) The Sun Also Rises.
(d) Lord of the Flies.

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

3. Peter Barry states that in the 1990s a second, less essentialist, notion of lesbianism emerged, within the sphere of what is now known as ________.
(a) Reception theory.
(b) Queer theory.
(c) Speech act theory.
(d) Hybrid theory.

4. Author Peter Barry uses an excerpt from which author to illustrate the analysis of narratologists?
(a) James Joyce.
(b) D.H. Lawrence.
(c) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(d) Edgar Allan Poe

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) Anthony Burgess.
(b) Edwin A. Abbott.
(c) Sigmund Freud.
(d) Michel Foucault.

Short Answer Questions

1. The gist of "Style in Language," edited by ________, is to claim that linguistics offers a more objective way of studying literature, and the book tends to set up "a confrontation of camps" between literary and language studies.

2. All of the following are part of the four areas identified as "outdoor environment" in the Chapter "Ecocriticism," except for which one?

3. According to Peter Barry in the chapter titled "Postcolonial Criticism," Frantz Fanon was a ________ from Martinique.

4. Who wrote the 1986 book "Linguistic Criticism," which characterized linguistic criticism as "objective description of texts"?

5. Peter Barry states that ________ is best understood by seeing it initially in the context of its own origins within feminism in the 1980s.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does stylistics differ from standard close reading?

3. What is narratology?

4. What is lesbian feminism?

5. Briefly define "mimesis" and "diegesis" as determined by Peter Barry.

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

7. Briefly explain what lesbian/gay critics do.

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

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

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

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