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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A book in which author Peter Barry claimed to properly inaugurate post-colonial criticism was Edward Said's ________, which was a specific expose of the Eurocentric universalism which took for granted both the superiority of that which was European or Western.
(a) Orientalism.
(b) Existentialism.
(c) Phallocentrism.
(d) Pre-Raphaelitism.

2. Lesbian theory that broke away from feminism and made new allegiances, in particular, with gay men rather than with other women is called "queer theory" or ________.
(a) Homosexual education.
(b) Heterosexual examinations.
(c) Homosexual concepts.
(d) Queer studies.

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) Western.
(b) Northern.
(c) Eastern.
(d) Southern.

4. 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?
(a) Ideology.
(b) Hermeneutics.
(c) Expressionism.
(d) Diachrony.

5. The narrator explains that those abroad who were sympathetic to the ideas of Communism tried to follow the ________ on matters where an official Party policy existed, hence the international influence of the Leninist views.
(a) Soviet line.
(b) Independent line.
(c) Census line.
(d) Moscow line.

6. 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.

7. Throughout the nineteenth century, linguistics was usually known as ________, and was almost entirely historical in emphasis.
(a) Narratology.
(b) Semiology.
(c) Phenomenology.
(d) Philology.

8. W.B. Yeats was a member of the ________ ruling class in ________, according to the narrator in the chapter titled "Postcolonial Criticism."
(a) Jewish / Poland.
(b) Amish / Sweden.
(c) Aethist / America.
(d) Protestant / Ireland.

9. 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."
(a) The Poverty of Philosophy.
(b) Das Kapital.
(c) The Communist Manifesto.
(d) The German Ideology.

10. Who does Peter Barry credit with partially defusing the conflict between heterosexual feminists and lesbians in an important essay which introduced the notion of the "lesbian continuum"?
(a) Anne Koedt.
(b) Bonnie Zimmerman.
(c) Muriel Spark.
(d) Adrienne Rich.

11. 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.

12. The narrator details that ________ believed that some speech was reported while other speech was mimetic, transposed, or narratized.
(a) Plato.
(b) Galileo Galilei.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Genette.

13. The ancestry of post-colonial criticism can be traced to Frantz Fanon's ________, published in French in 1961, and voicing what might be called "cultural resistance" to France's African empire.
(a) An American Tragedy.
(b) The Grapes of Wrath.
(c) The Wreched of the Earth.
(d) U.S.A. (trilogy).

14. According to the chapter "Stylistics," in medieval times rhetoric played an important part in training people for the ________, the legal profession, and political or diplomatic life.
(a) School.
(b) Church.
(c) Court.
(d) Library.

15. According to Peter Barry, what is the subject of narratology common to all story-telling?
(a) Imitation and motivation.
(b) Genre and plot.
(c) Mechanisms and procedures.
(d) Metaphors and synonyms.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the Nigerian novelist who published his first novel, "Things Fall Apart," in 1958, and was criticized by an early reviewer for affecting identity with African villagers?

2. According to the narrator, all of the following authors were major proponents of ecocriticism except for whom?

3. The chapter "Stylistics" states that the stop-start quality can be removed and cohesion achieved by what linguists call "pronominalization," using ________.

4. A poem of which author is provided by Peter Barry as an example of ecocriticism?

5. Ecocriticism was a term that was applied to the work previously known as what form of writing?

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