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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Lesbian/gay criticism.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator explains that the first prestigious name in English writing about literature was that of ________, who wrote his "Apology for Poetry" in about 1580.
(a) William Blake.
(b) Sir Philip Sidney.
(c) Geoffrey Chaucer.
(d) Archimedes.

2. ________ is defined as a discipline which has always tended to emphasize the difficulty of achieving secure knowledge about things.
(a) Philosophy.
(b) Sociology.
(c) Criminology.
(d) Psychology.

3. All of the following authors were considered some of the literary "high priests" of the modernist movement according to the narrator in the chapter titled "Postmodernism," except for which one?
(a) Virginia Woolf.
(b) John Milton.
(c) Gertrude Stein.
(d) T.S. Eliot.

4. In the chapter titled Post-Structuralism and Deconstruction, whose famous remark on philosophy was, "There are no facts, only interpretations"?
(a) Galileo Galilei.
(b) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(c) Ralph Waldo Emerson.
(d) Nietzsche.

5. In what decade did "postmodernism" become current according to the author?
(a) 1950s.
(b) 1990s.
(c) 1980s.
(d) 1910s.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who argued the fluidity of identity, including sexual identity in their highly influential "Epistemology of the Closet"?

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"?

3. All of the following religious believers were not allowed to attend university in England in the nineteenth century except which one?

4. The narrator states that the study of English literature was seen as a kind of substitute for ________.

5. Who said the following quote found in the chapter titled Theory Before Theory--Liberal Humanism: "We are told that the study of literature 'cultivates the taste, educates the sympathies and enlarges the mind'"?

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