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Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory Quiz

Peter Barry
This Study Guide consists of approximately 32 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Beginning Theory.

Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory Quiz

Peter Barry
This Study Guide consists of approximately 32 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Beginning Theory.

Take our free Beginning Theory quiz below, with 25 multiple choice questions that help you test your knowledge. Determine which chapters, themes and styles you already know and what you need to study for your upcoming essay, midterm, or final exam. Take the free quiz now!

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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

According to the narrator in the chapter "Psychoanalytic Criticism," many of Sigmund Freud's ideas concern aspects of ________. (from Psychoanalytic criticism)

2.

Which of the following works did the narrator believe to be the most important Lacanian text for literary students and which was first delivered in 1957 to a "lay" audience of philosophy students? (from Psychoanalytic criticism)

3.

A book in which author Peter Barry claimed to properly inaugurate post-colonial criticism was Edward Said's ________, which was a specific expose of the Eurocentric universalism which took for granted both the superiority of that which was European or Western. (from Postcolonial criticism)

4.

Dollimore and Sinfield defined the term "Political Shakespeare" as designating a critical method which has ________ characteristics. (from New historicism and cultural materialism)

5.

The British critic ________ described cultural materialism as "a politicized form of historiography." (from New historicism and cultural materialism)

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