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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The chapter "Feminist Criticism" informs the reader that "for her notion of the basic opposition between semiotic and the symbolic Kristeva was indebted to Jacques Lacan and his distinction between two realms, the ________ and the ________.
(a) Imaginary / symbolic.
(b) Syntagm / syntagmatic.
(c) Story / discourse.
(d) Reference / referent.

2. According to the narrator, post-colonial critics would discuss the representation of what country in Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness"?
(a) Australia.
(b) Africa.
(c) America.
(d) Ireland.

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

4. In Percy Bysshe Shelley's ________(1821) saw poetry as essentially engaged in what a group of twentieth-century Russian critics later called "defamiliarization."
(a) Queen Mab.
(b) A Defence of Poetry.
(c) Cenci.
(d) The Necessity of Atheism.

5. What was the name of Martin Taylor's poems that Mark Lilly used in his straight-forward essay that surveyed the range of First World War poetry?
(a) The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.
(b) Of Human Bondage.
(c) Lads: Love Poetry of the Trenches.
(d) The Doll's House.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Author Peter Barry informs the reader that the feminist literary criticism of today was the direct product of the "women's movement" of the ________.

3. According to Marxist literary criticism, what term is best defined as an outlook, values, tacit assumptions, half-realized allegiances, etc. and having a major bearing on what is written by a member of a social class?

4. ________ is a co-founder of ecocriticism with Harold Fromm that developed in the early-1990s in the USA.

5. 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?

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