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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the chapter titled "Marxist Criticism," what was the name of the group that had flourished in the 1920s until disbanded by the Party, even though their work was not strictly Marxist in spirit?
(a) German Formalists.
(b) Korean Formalists.
(c) Russian Formalists.
(d) Irish Formalists.

2. The chapter titled "Psychoanalytic Criticism" discusses the use by the unconscious of these linguistic means of self-expression is part of ________'s evidence for the claim that the unconscious is structured like a language.
(a) Barry.
(b) Murray.
(c) Washington.
(d) Lacan.

3. 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) Southern.
(c) Western.
(d) Northern.

4. Peter Barry explains that post-colonial criticism emerges as a distinct category only in the ________.
(a) 1950s.
(b) 1970s.
(c) 1990s.
(d) 2000s.

5. According to the narrator in the chapter "Psychoanalytic Criticism," who did Sigmund Freud link the situation of Hamlet in the play to?
(a) Shakespeare.
(b) God.
(c) Oedipus.
(d) Zeus.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Peter Barry say is the topic of the book Beginning Theory?

2. The term "reification" was used in Karl Marx's major work ________, and it concerned the way, when capitalist goals and questions of profit and loss are paramount, workers are bereft of their full humanity and are though of as "hands" or "the labor force."

3. According to the chapter "New Historicism and Cultural Materialism," the notion of the state as all-powerful and all-seeing stems from the post-structuralist cultural historian ________.

4. Stylistics is the modern version of the ancient discipline known as ________, which taught its students how to structure an argument.

5. In the chapter titled "Lesbian / Gay Criticism," it states that lesbian and gay literary theory emerged prominently as a distinct field only in the ________.

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