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

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. The chapter "Feminist Criticism" suggests that feminist criticism became much more ________, meaning that it began to draw upon the findings and approaches of other kinds of criticism.
(a) Trope.
(b) Eclectic.
(c) Rhetoric.
(d) Perlocutionary.

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

4. 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) Essentials of Psycho-Analysis The Definitive Collection of Sigmund Freud's Writing.
(b) General Psychological Theory.
(c) The Psychopathology of Everyday Life.
(d) Character and Culture.

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

6. According to the chapter titled Structuralism, what is another term for "alba," the poetic form dating from the twelfth century in which lovers lament the approach of daybreak?
(a) Breaking dawn.
(b) Morning love.
(c) Dawn song.
(d) Morning glory.

7. Who presented I.A. Richard with the manuscript of the book which was published in 1930 with the title Seven Types of Ambiguity?
(a) Wilfred Owen.
(b) William Empson.
(c) Kurt Vonnegut.
(d) George Zebrowski.

8. According to the chapter titled Post-Structuralism and Deconstruction, structuralism derives ultimately from ________.
(a) Formalism.
(b) Hermeneutics.
(c) Linguistics.
(d) Mimesis.

9. Whom does Peter Barry credit for being the first person and anthropologist to use structuralism in their work?
(a) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(b) W.B. Yeats.
(c) Alfred Tennyson.
(d) Claude Levi-Strauss.

10. Author Peter Barry explains that a major "moment" in the history of postmodernism was the influential paper "Modernity-an Incomplete Project" delivered by the contemporary ________ theorist ________.
(a) English / Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.
(b) Polish / Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
(c) German / Jurgen Habermas.
(d) French / Guy de Maupassant.

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

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

13. What term is used in the Introduction means not politically radical, and hence generally evasive and non-committal on political issues?
(a) Communists.
(b) Socialists.
(c) Conservative.
(d) Liberal.

14. What was another name for the semic code found within the chapter titled Structuralism?
(a) Universals.
(b) Syntax.
(c) Connotative code.
(d) Tel Quel group.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What term suggests a range of negative attributes, such as "non-Marxist" and "non-feminist," and "non-theoretical"?

2. Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, and Shelley are authors of what form of writing, according to the chapter titled Theory Before Theory--Liberal Humanism?

3. What does the narrator say the reader will have the most difficulty as the result of what?

4. Who does Peter Barry claim described the feminist change in the late 1970s as a shift of attention from "andro-texts" to "gyno-texts"?

5. Whom does Peter Barry credit with the suggestion that language used is gendered, so that when a woman turns to novel writing she finds that there is "no common sentence ready for her use"?

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