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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the early nineteenth-century American writer who received considerable attention from both structuralists and post-structuralists?
(a) Edgar Allan Poe.
(b) Victor Hugo.
(c) Washington Irving.
(d) Mark Twain.

2. From which of Babara Johnson's literary pieces can the following definition of deconstructive reading be found according to author Peter Barry: "Deconstruction is not synonymous with 'destruction.' It is in fact much closer to the original meaning of the word 'analysis,' which etymologically means 'to undo'"?
(a) The Age of Innocence.
(b) The Critical Difference.
(c) Of Grammatology.
(d) Trustee from the Toolroom.

3. ________ was probably the most influential figure in twentieth-century British criticism according to author Peter Barry.
(a) Patrick Tilley.
(b) F.R. Leavis.
(c) Edward Jablonski.
(d) Douglas Adams.

4. Peter Barry explains that ________'s most significant thinking was contained in the essays "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time" and "The Study of Poetry."
(a) Voltaire.
(b) Matthew Arnold.
(c) Mark Twain.
(d) William Shakespeare.

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"?
(a) The Waste Land.
(b) The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism.
(c) Prufrock and Other Observations.
(d) Essays Ancient and Modern.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator informs the reader that in the early 1980s, two new forms of political/historical criticism emerged, new historicism from ________ and cultural materialism from ________.

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

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

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 where the only two universities in England in the nineteenth century?

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