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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 people broke away from feminism and made new allegiances, in particular, with gay men rather than with other women?
(a) Muriel Spark.
(b) Anne Koedt.
(c) Bonnie Zimmerman.
(d) Paulina Palmer.

2. The chapter "Stylistics" states that the stop-start quality can be removed and cohesion achieved by what linguists call "pronominalization," using ________.
(a) Adjectives.
(b) Verbs.
(c) Pronouns.
(d) Nouns.

3. Who argued in 1905 that literature must become an instrument of the party and that "literature must become Party literature"?
(a) Reis.
(b) Keats.
(c) Tennyson.
(d) Lenin.

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

5. Dollimore and Sinfield defined the term "Political Shakespeare" as designating a critical method which has ________ characteristics.
(a) Four.
(b) Nine.
(c) Two.
(d) Seven.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Peter Barry states that in the 1990s a second, less essentialist, notion of lesbianism emerged, within the sphere of what is now known as ________.

3. According to the chapter "Narratology," Russian formalist Vladimir Propp identified how many actions in a tale with seven spheres of action to animate?

4. 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 ________.

5. In the chapter titled "Narratology", ________ means slow telling where an author stages a tale for readers whereas ________ means relating where the narrator summarizes events without trying to create an illusion.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was the "Vulgar Marxism"?

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

4. How does stylistics differ from standard close reading?

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

6. What is narratology?

7. What do ecocritics do according to Peter Barry?

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

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

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

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