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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. 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) L.S. Lowry.
(d) Jean-Francois Lyotard.

2. The British critic ________ described cultural materialism as "a politicized form of historiography."
(a) Robertson Davies.
(b) W. Somerset Maugham.
(c) Graham Holderness.
(d) Charles de Lint.

3. Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, and Shelley are authors of what form of writing, according to the chapter titled Theory Before Theory--Liberal Humanism?
(a) Investigative journalists.
(b) Mystery fiction writers.
(c) Romantic poets.
(d) Science-fiction writers.

4. According to Marxist literary criticism, what term is best defined as an outlook, values, tacit assumptions, half-realized allegiances, etc. and having a major bearing on what is written by a member of a social class?
(a) Ideology.
(b) Hermeneutics.
(c) Expressionism.
(d) Diachrony.

5. 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.
(a) Disunity.
(b) Genre.
(c) Discourse.
(d) Indeterminacy.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the narrator in the chapter titled "Feminist Criticism, the "Anglo-American" tradition appeared when?

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

3. 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.

4. Sigmund Freud believed that a ________ was an escape-hatch or safety-valve through which repressed desires, fears, or memories seek an outlet into the conscious mind.

5. According to the narrator in the chapter "Psychoanalytic Criticism," who did Sigmund Freud link the situation of Hamlet in the play to?

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