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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. 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) Infantile sexuality.
(b) Omnisexuality.
(c) Polysexuality.
(d) Pansexuality.

2. The chapter titled "Postmodernism" states the term "postmodernism" was used in the 1930s, but its current sense and vogue can be said to have begun with ________'s "The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge."
(a) Mies van der Rohe.
(b) Jean Baudrillard.
(c) Jean-Francois Lyotard.
(d) L.S. Lowry.

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

4. According to Peter Barry, the ________ aspect of discourse is characterized not by logic and order, but by "displacement, slippage, condensation."
(a) Semiotic.
(b) Imaginary.
(c) Natural.
(d) Symbolic.

5. What language does the narrator describe as being a Romance language that takes most of its words directly from Latin, and lacks the reassuring Anglo-Saxon layer of vocabulary?
(a) German.
(b) English.
(c) French.
(d) Spanish.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the chapter titled "Feminist Criticism," which group did author Peter Barry say maintained a major interest in traditional critical concepts like theme, motif, and characterization?

2. 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.

3. 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?

4. Sigmund Freud believed that a ________ was an escape-hatch or safety-valve through which repressed desires, fears, or memories seek an outlet into the conscious mind.

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was Jean Baudrillard? How was he associated with "the loss of the real"?

2. In which way is post-structuralism more fundamental than structuralism?

3. Explain how literary theory, after Sir Phillip Sydney, was significantly advanced in the eighteenth century.

4. Who was I.A. Richards?

5. Why was Freudian interpretation interesting to literary critics?

6. 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."

7. Discuss how J.A. Cuddon describes postmodernism in his "Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory."

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

9. What does the formula SQ3R mean? Explain.

10. Compare post-colonialism to postmodernism as discussed in the chapter "Theory Before Theory--Liberal Humanism."

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