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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Peter Barry, the aim of Marxism was to bring about a ________ society, based on the common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange.
(a) Lawless.
(b) Classless.
(c) Homeless.
(d) Thoughtless.

2. During the 1980s, linguists consulted and incorporated non-linguistic material in which came to be called the ________, which had a limited degree of eclecticism and was less likely to claim that it alone studied literature in an objective way.
(a) Rhetoric.
(b) New stylistics.
(c) Phenomenology.
(d) Neoplatonism.

3. The narrator explains that narratology studies how narratives, or stories, creates ________.
(a) Meaning.
(b) History.
(c) Icons.
(d) Money.

4. Which of the following people broke away from feminism and made new allegiances, in particular, with gay men rather than with other women?
(a) Anne Koedt.
(b) Paulina Palmer.
(c) Bonnie Zimmerman.
(d) Muriel Spark.

5. Which Greek philosopher identified three elements in a plot, fault or character-defect, recognition, and reversal, which are all incumbent on the hero or heroine?
(a) Sophocles.
(b) Confucius.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Plato.

6. Ecocritics emphasize writers who highlight ________ as their subject matter.
(a) Children.
(b) Animals.
(c) Feminists.
(d) Nature.

7. Peter Barry affirms that Friedrich Engels was a German ________.
(a) Philosopher.
(b) Sociologist.
(c) Criminologist.
(d) Radiologist.

8. The British critic ________ described cultural materialism as "a politicized form of historiography."
(a) Graham Holderness.
(b) Robertson Davies.
(c) Charles de Lint.
(d) W. Somerset Maugham.

9. Barry structures the work of Genette on a range of ________ questions to detail the process of telling.
(a) Two.
(b) Six.
(c) Four.
(d) Nine.

10. Who does the narrator describe as a prominent contributor to "Inside/Outside," who pointed out that "identity categories," like "gay" and "straight," "tend to be instruments of regulatory regimes"?
(a) Rock Meyer.
(b) Diana Fuss.
(c) Judith Butler.
(d) Eve Sedgwick.

11. In the following statement found in the chapter "New Historicism and Cultural Materialism," what does the word "panoptic" mean: "Michel Foucault's pervasive image of the state is that of 'panoptic'"?
(a) All-seeing.
(b) All-mighty.
(c) All-hearing.
(d) All-knowing.

12. The chapter "Stylistics" states that the stop-start quality can be removed and cohesion achieved by what linguists call "pronominalization," using ________.
(a) Nouns.
(b) Pronouns.
(c) Adjectives.
(d) Verbs.

13. 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 ________.
(a) Edwin A. Abbott.
(b) Michel Foucault.
(c) Sigmund Freud.
(d) Anthony Burgess.

14. The chapter "New Historicism and Cultural Materialism" explains that the practice of giving ________ to literary and non-literary material is the first and major difference between the "new" and the "old" historicism.
(a) Deep structure.
(b) Catharsis.
(c) Emotive language.
(d) Equal weighting.

15. 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 Doll's House.
(b) The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.
(c) Of Human Bondage.
(d) Lads: Love Poetry of the Trenches.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to the narrator, post-colonial criticism gained currency through the influence of all the following books except for which one?

3. ________ focalization is classic narrative called omniscient narration, according to the narrator in the chapter titled "Narratology."

4. The institutional acceptance of the term "queer" dates to a 1990 conference on "queer theory" at what major university?

5. Which of the following two writers were stigmatized as exemplars of "bourgeois decadence"?

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