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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. New historicists focus attention on issues of ________ and how it is maintained, on patriarchal structures and their perpetuation, and on the process of colonization, with its accompanying "mind-set."
(a) Immigration.
(b) State power.
(c) Social class.
(d) Poverty.

2. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels were the join founders of the school of________ according to the Chapter titled "Marxist Criticism."
(a) Englightenment.
(b) Reason.
(c) Thought.
(d) Expectations.

3. Author Peter Barry explains that a major "moment" in the history of postmodernism was the influential paper "Modernity-an Incomplete Project" delivered by the contemporary ________ theorist ________.
(a) German / Jurgen Habermas.
(b) Polish / Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
(c) French / Guy de Maupassant.
(d) English / Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.

4. According to the narrator in the chapter titled "Feminist Criticism, the "Anglo-American" tradition appeared when?
(a) Early 1990s.
(b) Mid 1980s.
(c) Late 1970s.
(d) Early 1960s.

5. What where the only two universities in England in the nineteenth century?
(a) Oxford and Cambridge.
(b) Manchester and Winchester.
(c) Birmingham and Buckingham.
(d) Kingston and Liverpool.

Short Answer Questions

1. Peter Barry states that in the 1990s a second, less essentialist, notion of lesbianism emerged, within the sphere of what is now known as ________.

2. According to the chapter titled Post-Structuralism and Deconstruction, structuralism derives ultimately from ________.

3. Who does the narrator say was the founder of a method of studying English which is still the norm today?

4. In the Introduction, what university did author Peter Barry say he attended?

5. According to Peter Barry, where does post-structuralism ultimately derive from?

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