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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was appointed Professor at King's College, London in 1840?
(a) Nick Hornby.
(b) Frank McCourt.
(c) F.D. Maurice.
(d) J.R.R. Tolkien.

2. Who does the narrator say was the founder of a method of studying English which is still the norm today?
(a) Ralph Waldo Emerson.
(b) I.A. Richards.
(c) T.S. Eliot.
(d) Samuel Langhorne Clemens.

3. Peter Barry examines Sigmund Freud's book ________, which in the chapter "Psychoanalytic Criticism" Barry claims is one of Freud's most enjoyable and accessible publications.
(a) The Psychopathology of Everyday Life.
(b) Character and Culture.
(c) General Psychological Theory.
(d) Essentials of Psycho-Analysis The Definitive Collection of Sigmund Freud's Writing.

4. According to Plato, "a state of language anterior to the Word" is called ________.
(a) Surrealism.
(b) Semiotic.
(c) Organic form.
(d) Chora.

5. David Lodge, Professor of English at Birmingham, combined the ideas of structuralism with more traditional approaches in which one of his books?
(a) Beyond Structuralism.
(b) Transforming Structuralism.
(c) Beginning Structuralism.
(d) Working with Structuralism.

6. The narrator suggests that liberal humanists believe in ________ as something fixed and constant which great literature expresses.
(a) Horizon of expectation.
(b) Diegesis.
(c) Human nature.
(d) Idealism.

7. ________ is defined as the meanings of words according to Saussure.
(a) Relational.
(b) Canon.
(c) Hermeneutics.
(d) Episteme.

8. Which of the following works of T.S. Eliot was a collage of juxtaposed, incomplete stories, or fragments of stories according to the chapter titled "Postmodernism"?
(a) Essays Ancient and Modern.
(b) The Waste Land.
(c) Prufrock and Other Observations.
(d) The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism.

9. 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?
(a) The Insistence of the Letter.
(b) The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis.
(c) Fetishism: the Symbolic, the Imaginary and the Real.
(d) The Signification of the Phallus.

10. According to the narrator in the Introduction, what two introductions to theory sources deal with the problems of teaching or learning theory?
(a) The Oval Portrait and The End of English.
(b) Literary Studies in Action and Texts and Contexts.
(c) After Theory and The Critical Decade.
(d) The Use of English and The English Review.

11. 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) mytheme / smallest.
(b) Rhetoric / moderate.
(c) Bliss / largest.
(d) Semantics / largest.

12. The chapter "Postmodernism" details that Ezra Pound calls his major work, "The Cantos" a ________.
(a) Praxis.
(b) Paradox.
(c) Misprision.
(d) Rag-bag.

13. In Julia Kristeva's essay "The System and the Speaking Subject," the ________ aspect is associated with authority, order, fathers, repression, and control.
(a) Symbolic.
(b) Semiotic.
(c) Natural.
(d) Imaginary.

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

15. ________ was probably the most influential figure in twentieth-century British criticism according to author Peter Barry.
(a) F.R. Leavis.
(b) Douglas Adams.
(c) Edward Jablonski.
(d) Patrick Tilley.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator explains in the chapter "Psychoanalytic Criticism" that distrust of Freud has grown in recent years, partly as a result of his mainly negative views on ________.

2. In the Introduction, what university did author Peter Barry say he attended?

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

4. Sigmund Freud connects infantile sexuality to the ________, in which the male infant conceives the desire to eliminate the father and become the sexual partner of the mother.

5. What is the name of the early nineteenth-century American writer who received considerable attention from both structuralists and post-structuralists?

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