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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. Karl Marx is described by Peter Barry as being a German ________.
(a) Scientist.
(b) Philosopher.
(c) Criminologist.
(d) Zoologist.

2. According to Peter Barry at the beginning of the book "Beginning Theory," many of the chapters in the book were based on material Barry has used in the "Introduction to Literature" courses at what university?
(a) FSU.
(b) ASU.
(c) TSU.
(d) LSU.

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

4. 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) Thoughtless.
(b) Homeless.
(c) Lawless.
(d) Classless.

5. Who wrote the 1986 book "Linguistic Criticism," which characterized linguistic criticism as "objective description of texts"?
(a) Madison.
(b) Eliot.
(c) Fowler.
(d) Clinton.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the term used to describe the study of narrative structures that combines characteristics and is derived from structuralism and linguistic theory?

2. ________ studies the relationship between literature and physical environment.

3. 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."

4. 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.

5. ________ read major works from an ecocritic point of view and extend the application of concepts to areas other than the natural world.

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the "Vulgar Marxism"?

2. Who was Karl Marx?

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

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

5. What four areas of ecocriticism does Peter Barry identify?

6. Briefly explain new historicism as it is described by the author.

7. Who are Cheryll Glotfelty and Harold Fromm? Explain the ecocriticism movement.

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

9. What is narratology?

10. What is the purpose of lesbian/gay criticism according to the "Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader"?

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