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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the Introduction, what university did author Peter Barry say he attended?
(a) Yale University.
(b) Harvard University.
(c) London University.
(d) North Carolina State University.

2. The Introduction states that ________, like novelists, are dauntingly plentiful.
(a) Poets.
(b) Journalists.
(c) Theorists.
(d) Romanticists.

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

4. Whom does Peter Barry credit for being the first person and anthropologist to use structuralism in their work?
(a) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(b) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(c) W.B. Yeats.
(d) Alfred Tennyson.

5. According to Peter Barry, where does post-structuralism ultimately derive from?
(a) Pyschology.
(b) Zoology.
(c) Philosophy.
(d) Physics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term does the narrator explain was a popular term in deconstructive criticism and literally means an impasse?

2. The narrator reveals that the modern period began with the ________.

3. According to the narrator in the Introduction, the ________ probably saw the high-water mark of literary theory.

4. Who was credited as being a key figure in the development of modern approaches to language study in the chapter titled Structuralism?

5. 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 ________.

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