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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 ________.
(a) Polish / Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
(b) English / Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.
(c) German / Jurgen Habermas.
(d) French / Guy de Maupassant.

2. Which of F.R. Leavis's teachings was essentially a syllabus, manageable within a year-long undergraduate course?
(a) Great Explorations.
(b) Great American Literature.
(c) Great Tradition.
(d) Great Expectations.

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

4. Who was the first critic to develop a "reader-centered" approach to literature?
(a) Plato.
(b) Sigmund Freud.
(c) Sophocles.
(d) Aristotle.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator suggests that liberal humanists believe in ________ as something fixed and constant which great literature expresses.

2. Which of the following term best can be defined as one in which we cannot know where we are, since all the concepts which previously defined the center, and hence also the margins, have been "deconstructed," or undermined?

3. In Percy Bysshe Shelley's ________(1821) saw poetry as essentially engaged in what a group of twentieth-century Russian critics later called "defamiliarization."

4. All of the following authors were considered some of the literary "high priests" of the modernist movement according to the narrator in the chapter titled "Postmodernism," except for which one?

5. The Introduction states that ________, like novelists, are dauntingly plentiful.

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