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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. All of the following religious believers were not allowed to attend university in England in the nineteenth century except which one?
(a) Atheist.
(b) Anglican.
(c) Jewish.
(d) Catholic.

2. What does Peter Barry say was the earliest work of theory written by Aristotle?
(a) Generation of Animals.
(b) Politics.
(c) Metaphysics.
(d) Poetics.

3. In the Introduction, what university did author Peter Barry say he attended?
(a) London University.
(b) North Carolina State University.
(c) Yale University.
(d) Harvard University.

4. According to the narrator in the Introduction, what two introductions to theory sources deal with the problems of teaching or learning theory?
(a) Literary Studies in Action and Texts and Contexts.
(b) The Use of English and The English Review.
(c) The Oval Portrait and The End of English.
(d) After Theory and The Critical Decade.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Jean Baudrillard was associated with what is usually known as ________ according to the narrator.

2. 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 ________.

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. What term suggests a range of negative attributes, such as "non-Marxist" and "non-feminist," and "non-theoretical"?

5. What where the only two universities in England in the nineteenth century?

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