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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Stylistics.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The notion of the ________, posited by Levi-Strauss, denoting the minimal units of narrative "sense," is formed on the analogy of the morpheme, which, in linguistics, is the ________ unit of grammatical sense.
(a) Bliss / largest.
(b) mytheme / smallest.
(c) Rhetoric / moderate.
(d) Semantics / largest.

2. According to the chapter titled Theory Before Theory--Liberal Humanism, structuralism and post-structuralism originated in what country?
(a) Russia.
(b) France.
(c) Britain.
(d) United States.

3. In the chapter titled "Lesbian / Gay Criticism," it states that lesbian and gay literary theory emerged prominently as a distinct field only in the ________.
(a) 2000s.
(b) 1990s.
(c) 1960s.
(d) 1970s.

4. What where the only two universities in England in the nineteenth century?
(a) Oxford and Cambridge.
(b) Birmingham and Buckingham.
(c) Manchester and Winchester.
(d) Kingston and Liverpool.

5. Whom does author Peter Barry say was a French psychoanalyst whose work had an extraordinary influence upon many aspects of recent literary theory and who began his career by taking a medical degree and then training in psychiatry in the 1920s?
(a) Jacques Lacan.
(b) Euripides.
(c) John Maynard Keynes.
(d) Marcus Tullius Cicero.

Short Answer Questions

1. Author Peter Barry suggests that the reader uses a useful form of intensive reading known as ________.

2. According to the narrator in the chapter titled "Feminist Criticism, the "Anglo-American" tradition appeared when?

3. In the phrase "the archival continuum," an important difference between old and new historicisms is encapsulated in the word ________, for that word indicates that new historicism is indeed a historicist rather than a historical movement.

4. 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"?

5. What was the name of the Nigerian novelist who published his first novel, "Things Fall Apart," in 1958, and was criticized by an early reviewer for affecting identity with African villagers?

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