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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Postmodernism.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Introduction states that another name for traditional literary criticism is ________.
(a) Liberal humanism.
(b) Conservative humanism.
(c) Modern humanism.
(d) Independant humanism.

2. According to the narrator in the Introduction, what two introductions to theory sources deal with the problems of teaching or learning theory?
(a) Literary Studies in Action and Texts and Contexts.
(b) After Theory and The Critical Decade.
(c) The Oval Portrait and The End of English.
(d) The Use of English and The English Review.

3. In Percy Bysshe Shelley's ________(1821) saw poetry as essentially engaged in what a group of twentieth-century Russian critics later called "defamiliarization."
(a) Cenci.
(b) A Defence of Poetry.
(c) The Necessity of Atheism.
(d) Queen Mab.

4. All of the following authors were considered some of the literary "high priests" of the modernist movement according to the narrator in the chapter titled "Postmodernism," except for which one?
(a) Gertrude Stein.
(b) Virginia Woolf.
(c) John Milton.
(d) T.S. Eliot.

5. Which modern architect proclaimed that "decoration is a crime" in the chapter titled "Postmodernism"?
(a) Kurt Switters.
(b) Le Corbusier.
(c) Samuel Beckett.
(d) Adolf Loos.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator states that the study of English literature was seen as a kind of substitute for ________.

2. What language does the narrator describe as being a Romance language that takes most of its words directly from Latin, and lacks the reassuring Anglo-Saxon layer of vocabulary?

3. Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, and Shelley are authors of what form of writing, according to the chapter titled Theory Before Theory--Liberal Humanism?

4. According to Peter Barry in the chapter titled Structuralism, the novel "Middlemarch" is an example of a literary ________.

5. What example did Saussure use to explain what he meant by saying that there are no intrinsic, fixed meanings in language?

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