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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Mark Twain.
(b) Matthew Arnold.
(c) William Shakespeare.
(d) Voltaire.

2. The narrator states that the study of English literature was seen as a kind of substitute for ________.
(a) Social studies.
(b) History.
(c) Religion.
(d) Science.

3. What term does the narrator explain was a popular term in deconstructive criticism and literally means an impasse?
(a) Imagism.
(b) Langue.
(c) Aporia.
(d) Parole.

4. In what decade did "postmodernism" become current according to the author?
(a) 1950s.
(b) 1910s.
(c) 1990s.
(d) 1980s.

5. The narrator explains that post-structuralism emerged in France in the late ________.
(a) 1970s.
(b) 1930s.
(c) 1990s.
(d) 1960s.

Short Answer 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 ________.

2. According to the chapter titled Structuralism, what is another term for "alba," the poetic form dating from the twelfth century in which lovers lament the approach of daybreak?

3. What is the name of the early nineteenth-century American writer who received considerable attention from both structuralists and post-structuralists?

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

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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