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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator states that the study of English literature was seen as a kind of substitute for ________.
(a) History.
(b) Science.
(c) Social studies.
(d) Religion.

2. Who was credited as being a key figure in the development of modern approaches to language study in the chapter titled Structuralism?
(a) Thomas de Quincey.
(b) Ferdinand de Saussure.
(c) Saki.
(d) Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

3. Who presented I.A. Richard with the manuscript of the book which was published in 1930 with the title Seven Types of Ambiguity?
(a) George Zebrowski.
(b) Wilfred Owen.
(c) William Empson.
(d) Kurt Vonnegut.

4. The notion of the ________, posited by Levi-Strauss, denoting the minimal units of narrative "sense," is formed on the analogy of the morpheme, which, in linguistics, is the ________ unit of grammatical sense.
(a) mytheme / smallest.
(b) Semantics / largest.
(c) Bliss / largest.
(d) Rhetoric / moderate.

5. What does Peter Barry say was the earliest work of theory written by Aristotle?
(a) Politics.
(b) Metaphysics.
(c) Poetics.
(d) Generation of Animals.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following works of T.S. Eliot was a collage of juxtaposed, incomplete stories, or fragments of stories according to the chapter titled "Postmodernism"?

2. The narrator informs the reader that in the early 1980s, two new forms of political/historical criticism emerged, new historicism from ________ and cultural materialism from ________.

3. The Introduction states that ________, like novelists, are dauntingly plentiful.

4. What is the name given to the movement that dominates the arts and culture of the first half of the twentieth century?

5. What term suggests a range of negative attributes, such as "non-Marxist" and "non-feminist," and "non-theoretical"?

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