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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) Victor Hugo.
(b) Mark Twain.
(c) Edgar Allan Poe.
(d) Washington Irving.

2. 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.

3. 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 ________.
(a) Russia / the United States.
(b) Britain / Russia.
(c) France / Germany.
(d) The United States / Britain.

4. The narrator reveals that the modern period began with the ________.
(a) Innocence.
(b) Mythology.
(c) Enlightenment.
(d) Reason.

5. The notion of the ________, posited by Levi-Strauss, denoting the minimal units of narrative "sense," is formed on the analogy of the morpheme, which, in linguistics, is the ________ unit of grammatical sense.
(a) mytheme / smallest.
(b) Semantics / largest.
(c) Bliss / largest.
(d) Rhetoric / moderate.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the chapter titled Post-Structuralism and Deconstruction, structuralism derives ultimately from ________.

2. Who was the first critic to develop a "reader-centered" approach to literature?

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

4. According to the narrator in the Introduction, what two introductions to theory sources deal with the problems of teaching or learning theory?

5. Who was credited as being a key figure in the development of modern approaches to language study in the chapter titled Structuralism?

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