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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. According to the narrator in the Introduction, the ________ probably saw the high-water mark of literary theory.
(a) 1970s.
(b) 1960s.
(c) 1980s.
(d) 1990s.

2. Who was appointed Professor at King's College, London in 1840?
(a) Frank McCourt.
(b) Nick Hornby.
(c) J.R.R. Tolkien.
(d) F.D. Maurice.

3. The thesis that the language is "masculine" was developed by ________ in the early 1980s in her book "Man Made Language," which also argues that language is not a neutral medium.
(a) Dale Spender.
(b) Evelyn Waugh.
(c) Laurell K. Hamilton.
(d) Iris Murdoch.

4. Which of the following terms best fit the following definition: "a form of literary criticism which uses some of the techniques of psychoanalysis in the interpretation of literature"?
(a) Psychoanalytic criticism.
(b) Impressionistic criticism.
(c) Applied criticism.
(d) Practical criticism.

5. 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) Archimedes.
(b) William Blake.
(c) Sir Philip Sidney.
(d) Geoffrey Chaucer.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What term is used in the Introduction means not politically radical, and hence generally evasive and non-committal on political issues?

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

4. The chapter "Postmodernism" details that Ezra Pound calls his major work, "The Cantos" a ________.

5. 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"?

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