Question: What is false consciousness ?

• 1. A feminist term for the state that occurs when texts written by women are not considered in the study of literature
• 2. Another term for the unconscious
• 3. A term related to the period of psychosexual development that occurs before an infant reaches the mirror stage
• 4. An ideology that involves dominating the consciousness of exploited classes

Question: Which of the following best describes the difference between literary criticism and literary theory?

• 1. Literary criticism is concerned only with the meaning of a literary work, while literary theory is concerned only with the structure of a literary work.
• 2. Literary criticism draws upon research derived from sources outside literature, while literary theory draws upon sources within a text.
• 3. Literary criticism is concerned with how characters in a text act, while literary theory is concerned with why characters act.
• 4. Literary theory is concerned with the method used to interpret a work, while literary criticism is the application of literary theory.

Question: In general, what is Judith Butler’s concept of gender ?

• 1. Women’s gender is artificial, while men’s gender is not.
• 2. While gender is not real, the stereotypes that accompany it are true.
• 3. Gender is a problematic, but essentially true, category.
• 4. Gender is largely a cultural construct.

Question: Which school of literary theory is associated with the phrase “to make the stones stonier” ?

• 1. Humanism
• 2. Formalism
• 3. Structuralism
• 4. Poststructuralism

Question: What is hermeneutics ?

• 1. A term that describes the absence of racial others in the canon
• 2. A term that describes the attempt to read homosexuality into literature
• 3. A term that describes the effect of autobiography on text
• 4. A term that describes the interpretation of meaning

Question: In her essay “The Poem as Event,” Louise M. Rosenblatt sees the reader as performing what function ?

• 1. The reader is acted upon by the text.
• 2. The reader acts upon the text.
• 3. The reader brings individual knowledge to his or her reading of the text.
• 4. All of the above.

Question: What is phenomenology ?

• 1. The examination of structures informing our conscious experience
• 2. The examination of desires informing our consciousness
• 3. The examination of our unconscious experience
• 4. The examination of intricate structures within our unconscious

Question: What are some common criticisms of literary theory ?

• 1. The reasoning of theory is often too circular.
• 2. Many theories have been pushed too far into abstraction.
• 3. Many theories are no longer accepted by their parent disciplines.
• 4. All of the above.

Question: With what literary critic is the term the author function most closely associated ?

• 1. Claude Lévi-Strauss
• 2. Jacques Derrida
• 3. Jacques Lacan
• 4. Michel Foucault

Question: Which of the following is a theme of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s book Epistemology of the Closet ?

• 1. Understanding sexuality is crucial to understanding culture.
• 2. Understanding homosexuality has little effect on understanding culture.
• 3. Literary study is unaffected by a lack of interest in sexuality.
• 4. Understanding homosexual themes in novels has become too routine