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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. All of the following religious believers were not allowed to attend university in England in the nineteenth century except which one?
(a) Jewish.
(b) Anglican.
(c) Catholic.
(d) Atheist.

2. ________ read major works from an ecocritic point of view and extend the application of concepts to areas other than the natural world.
(a) Ecologists.
(b) Ecocentrists.
(c) Ecofeminists.
(d) Ecocritics.

3. Who does Peter Barry claim described the feminist change in the late 1970s as a shift of attention from "andro-texts" to "gyno-texts"?
(a) Katherine Mansfield.
(b) Jane Austen.
(c) Elaine Showalter.
(d) Daisy Bates.

4. Author Peter Barry explains that post-colonial critics reject the claims to universalism made on behalf of canonical _________ literature and seek to show its limitations of outlook.
(a) Eastern.
(b) Northern.
(c) Western.
(d) Southern.

5. What term does the narrator explain was a popular term in deconstructive criticism and literally means an impasse?
(a) Aporia.
(b) Parole.
(c) Langue.
(d) Imagism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Ecocritics emphasize writers who highlight ________ as their subject matter.

2. W.B. Yeats was a member of the ________ ruling class in ________, according to the narrator in the chapter titled "Postcolonial Criticism."

3. 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?

4. According to the narrator in the Introduction, the ________ probably saw the high-water mark of literary theory.

5. Ecocriticism was a term that was applied to the work previously known as what form of writing?

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