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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. The panopticon was a design for a circular prison conceived by the eighteenth-century utilitarian ________.
(a) Jeremy Bentham.
(b) Sigmund Freud.
(c) Anthony Burgess.
(d) Ray Bradbury.

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) Judith Butler.
(b) Eve Sedgwick.
(c) Diana Fuss.
(d) Rock Meyer.

3. 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.
(a) Chaucer.
(b) Wiley.
(c) Sebeok.
(d) Fowler.

4. Barry structures the work of Genette on a range of ________ questions to detail the process of telling.
(a) Six.
(b) Four.
(c) Two.
(d) Nine.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the term used to describe the study of narrative structures that combines characteristics and is derived from structuralism and linguistic theory?

2. The term "reification" was used in Karl Marx's major work ________, and it concerned the way, when capitalist goals and questions of profit and loss are paramount, workers are bereft of their full humanity and are though of as "hands" or "the labor force."

3. 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"?

4. According to the narrator, all of the following authors were major proponents of ecocriticism except for whom?

5. According to the chapter titled "Postcolonial Criticism," in its earliest phase, post-colonial criticism took as its main subject matter ________ representations of colonial countries and criticized these for their limitations and their bias.

Short Essay Questions

1. What is lesbian feminism?

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

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

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

5. What was the "Vulgar Marxism"?

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

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

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

9. Who was Karl Marx?

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

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