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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 suggests that the reader uses a useful form of intensive reading known as ________.
(a) NACL2.
(b) SQ3R.
(c) NH2P.
(d) H2OO.

2. The Introduction states that another name for traditional literary criticism is ________.
(a) Liberal humanism.
(b) Conservative humanism.
(c) Independant humanism.
(d) Modern humanism.

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

4. 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."
(a) Jean Baudrillard.
(b) L.S. Lowry.
(c) Jean-Francois Lyotard.
(d) Mies van der Rohe.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Peter Barry in the chapter titled "Post-Structuralism and Deconstruction," post-structuralist critics seek to show that the text is characterized by ________ rather than unity.

2. Which modern architect proclaimed that "decoration is a crime" in the chapter titled "Postmodernism"?

3. All of the following religious believers were not allowed to attend university in England in the nineteenth century except which one?

4. In the chapter titled Structuralism, the narrator explains that ________ applied the structuralism method to the general field of modern culture.

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

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