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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. Karl Marx is described by Peter Barry as being a German ________.
(a) Zoologist.
(b) Philosopher.
(c) Criminologist.
(d) Scientist.

2. 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) Rock Meyer.
(d) Judith Butler.

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

4. ________ focalization is classic narrative called omniscient narration, according to the narrator in the chapter titled "Narratology."
(a) Spiritual.
(b) Zero.
(c) External.
(d) Internal.

5. In the following statement found in the chapter "New Historicism and Cultural Materialism," what does the word "panoptic" mean: "Michel Foucault's pervasive image of the state is that of 'panoptic'"?
(a) All-hearing.
(b) All-seeing.
(c) All-mighty.
(d) All-knowing.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Dollimore and Sinfield defined the term "Political Shakespeare" as designating a critical method which has ________ characteristics.

3. 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?

4. The chapter "Narratology" explains that Aristotle offered types of psychic narrative with ________'s plot specifics and ________'s tools to tell the story.

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does stylistics differ from standard close reading?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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