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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. Peter Barry states that in the 1990s a second, less essentialist, notion of lesbianism emerged, within the sphere of what is now known as ________.
(a) Reception theory.
(b) Hybrid theory.
(c) Queer theory.
(d) Speech act theory.

2. The narrator believes that after the moment of theory there comes, inevitably, the ________ of theory, when it ceases to be the exclusive concern of a dedicated minority and enters the intellectual bloodstream.
(a) Year.
(b) Hour.
(c) Month.
(d) Week.

3. In the chapter titled "Lesbian / Gay Criticism," it states that lesbian and gay literary theory emerged prominently as a distinct field only in the ________.
(a) 1970s.
(b) 1960s.
(c) 2000s.
(d) 1990s.

4. In the chapter titled "Narratology," Peter Barry uses ________ rather than ________ to incorporate style, pace, and viewpoint, packaged to cause the desired effect.
(a) Discourse / plot.
(b) Fancy / imagination.
(c) Metonymy / metaphor.
(d) Carnival / carnivalesque.

5. 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) Phenomenology.
(b) Neoplatonism.
(c) Rhetoric.
(d) New stylistics.

Short Answer 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.

2. Which of the following term is about "lexical items" (words) which cross the boundaries between sentences, binding them into a single continuous utterance, even though they are grammatically separate sentences?

3. New historicists focus attention on issues of ________ and how it is maintained, on patriarchal structures and their perpetuation, and on the process of colonization, with its accompanying "mind-set."

4. Which of the following essays is an example of new historicism in practice written by Louis Montrose?

5. The panopticon was a design for a circular prison conceived by the eighteenth-century utilitarian ________.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the aim of Marxism, according to the narrator?

4. Briefly discuss the ancestry of post-colonial criticism.

5. What were some of the influences on early Marxist thinking?

6. How does Barry use the term "discourse" in relation to narratology? Who else used such term according to Barry?

7. What are some of the advantages of new historicism?

8. What is lesbian feminism?

9. Briefly define "mimesis" and "diegesis" as determined by Peter Barry.

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

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