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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The chapter "Postmodernism" details that Ezra Pound calls his major work, "The Cantos" a ________.
(a) Misprision.
(b) Rag-bag.
(c) Praxis.
(d) Paradox.

2. 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?
(a) Gertrude Stein.
(b) John Milton.
(c) T.S. Eliot.
(d) Virginia Woolf.

3. Who wrote the following statement on the mythologized misrepresentation of the United States and Disneyland: "All its [the USA's] values are exalted here, in miniature and comic-strip form. Embalmed and pacified"?
(a) Burke.
(b) Brooker.
(c) Browning.
(d) Butler.

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?
(a) Thomas Malory.
(b) Edwin Abbott.
(c) John Webster.
(d) Matthew Arnold.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what decade did "postmodernism" become current according to the author?

2. The Introduction states that another name for traditional literary criticism is ________.

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

4. Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, and Shelley are authors of what form of writing, according to the chapter titled Theory Before Theory--Liberal Humanism?

5. The chapter titled "Postmodernism" states the term "postmodernism" was used in the 1930s, but its current sense and vogue can be said to have begun with ________'s "The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge."

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