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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through New historicism and cultural materialism.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From which of Babara Johnson's literary pieces can the following definition of deconstructive reading be found according to author Peter Barry: "Deconstruction is not synonymous with 'destruction.' It is in fact much closer to the original meaning of the word 'analysis,' which etymologically means 'to undo'"?
(a) Trustee from the Toolroom.
(b) Of Grammatology.
(c) The Age of Innocence.
(d) The Critical Difference.

2. 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"?
(a) The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism.
(b) Essays Ancient and Modern.
(c) The Waste Land.
(d) Prufrock and Other Observations.

3. The institutional acceptance of the term "queer" dates to a 1990 conference on "queer theory" at what major university?
(a) University of New Mexico.
(b) University of New York.
(c) University of California.
(d) University of Florida.

4. Which of the following term best can be defined as one in which we cannot know where we are, since all the concepts which previously defined the center, and hence also the margins, have been "deconstructed," or undermined?
(a) Decentered universe.
(b) Binary oppositions.
(c) Absurdism.
(d) Allegorical Interpretation.

5. Peter Barry states that ________ is best understood by seeing it initially in the context of its own origins within feminism in the 1980s.
(a) Radical feminism.
(b) Lesbian feminism.
(c) Endangered feminism.
(d) Beginning feminism.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the chapter titled Theory Before Theory--Liberal Humanism, structuralism and post-structuralism originated in what country?

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

3. The chapter titled "Psychoanalytic Criticism" discusses the use by the unconscious of these linguistic means of self-expression is part of ________'s evidence for the claim that the unconscious is structured like a language.

4. The chapter "Feminist Criticism" suggests that feminist criticism became much more ________, meaning that it began to draw upon the findings and approaches of other kinds of criticism.

5. What does Peter Barry say was the earliest work of theory written by Aristotle?

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