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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the narrator in the Introduction, the term "liberal humanism" became current in what decade?
(a) 1910s.
(b) 1930s.
(c) 1920s.
(d) 1970s.

2. The narrator explains that the first prestigious name in English writing about literature was that of ________, who wrote his "Apology for Poetry" in about 1580.
(a) Geoffrey Chaucer.
(b) Archimedes.
(c) Sir Philip Sidney.
(d) William Blake.

3. Who does the narrator say was the founder of a method of studying English which is still the norm today?
(a) I.A. Richards.
(b) Samuel Langhorne Clemens.
(c) T.S. Eliot.
(d) Ralph Waldo Emerson.

4. According to the chapter titled Theory Before Theory--Liberal Humanism, structuralism and post-structuralism originated in what country?
(a) France.
(b) United States.
(c) Russia.
(d) Britain.

5. The chapter titled "Postmodernism" states the term "postmodernism" was used in the 1930s, but its current sense and vogue can be said to have begun with ________'s "The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge."
(a) Jean Baudrillard.
(b) Mies van der Rohe.
(c) Jean-Francois Lyotard.
(d) L.S. Lowry.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Peter Barry in the chapter titled "Post-Structuralism and Deconstruction," post-structuralist critics seek to show that the text is characterized by ________ rather than unity.

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

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

4. The chapter titled Theory Before Theory--Liberal Humanism states that the conventional reading of the origins of the subject of English is that this kind of thinking begins with who?

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

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