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

2. Peter Barry explains that post-colonial criticism emerges as a distinct category only in the ________.
(a) 1990s.
(b) 2000s.
(c) 1950s.
(d) 1970s.

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

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

5. 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) Lads: Love Poetry of the Trenches.
(d) Of Human Bondage.

Short Answer Questions

1. Karl Marx is described by Peter Barry as being a German ________.

2. According to the narrator, what is another term for ecocriticism?

3. 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"?

4. Peter Barry affirms that Friedrich Engels was a German ________.

5. Which of the following terms is defined as the view that, in spite of the connections between culture and economics, art has a degree of independence from economic forces?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is lesbian feminism?

2. Discuss the three elements Aristotle identified in a plot. What key point does Barry suggest about timing as it relates to plot?

3. What does ecocriticism study? What is another term for ecocriticism?

4. In what way does the narrator say queer theory differs from lesbian feminism?

5. Explain what liberal humanism and stylistics have in common.

6. Briefly explain what lesbian/gay critics do.

7. Explain the meaning of "adopt," "adapt," and "adept" phases as they relate to post-colonial criticism.

8. What do ecocritics do according to Peter Barry?

9. What was the "Vulgar Marxism"?

10. What are the four characteristics that define the term "Political Shakespeare"?

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