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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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) Rhetoric.
(b) Eclectic.
(c) Trope.
(d) Perlocutionary.

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

4. The chapter "Psychoanalytic Criticism" states that ________ is the notion that sexuality begins not at puberty, with physical maturing, but in infancy, especially through the infant's relationship with the mother.
(a) Polysexuality.
(b) Infantile sexuality.
(c) Omnisexuality.
(d) Pansexuality.

5. What was the name of the American literature lecturer mentioned in the Introduction who died in January of 1995?
(a) Samuel Jackson.
(b) Edward Hardy.
(c) Eric Mottram.
(d) Charles Devine.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

2. The narrator reveals that the modern period began with the ________.

3. All of the following authors were considered some of the literary "high priests" of the modernist movement according to the narrator in the chapter titled "Postmodernism," except for which one?

4. The Introduction states that another name for traditional literary criticism is ________.

5. What where the only two universities in England in the nineteenth century?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was Freudian interpretation interesting to literary critics?

2. What are the three stages of the deconstructive process? Explain.

3. Explain what author Peter Barry means when he says the frame of mind he would recommend his readers is threefold.

4. Explain the Oedipus complex of Sigmund Freud.

5. Discuss what higher education was like in England until the first quarter of the nineteenth century, according to the chapter titled "Theory Before Theory--Liberal Humanism."

6. Do liberal humanists use the term "human nature"? Explain.

7. What does the formula SQ3R mean? Explain.

8. How does Disneyland fit into the concept of hyperreality according to Baurdrillard?

9. What is the purpose of displacement and condensation?

10. What is the most basic difference between liberal humanist and structuralist reading?

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