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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who argued in 1905 that literature must become an instrument of the party and that "literature must become Party literature"?

2. According to Marxist literary criticism, what term is best defined as an outlook, values, tacit assumptions, half-realized allegiances, etc. and having a major bearing on what is written by a member of a social class?

3. According to the narrator, all of the following authors were major proponents of ecocriticism except for whom?

4. Who argued the fluidity of identity, including sexual identity in their highly influential "Epistemology of the Closet"?

5. A poem of which author is provided by Peter Barry as an example of ecocriticism?

Short Essay Questions

1. Briefly discuss what post-colonial critics do according to the narrator.

2. Who was Karl Marx?

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

4. According to the narrator, what is one significant effect of post-colonial criticism?

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

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

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

8. What is lesbian feminism?

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

10. Briefly explain what lesbian/gay critics do.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze and describe the organizational structure of New Historicism theory.

Essay Topic 2

In an argumentative essay, state whether you believe stylistics is a theory or a practice.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss what it means to read literature with the perspective of "Orientalism" in mind.

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