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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What where the only two universities in England in the nineteenth century?
(a) Birmingham and Buckingham.
(b) Kingston and Liverpool.
(c) Manchester and Winchester.
(d) Oxford and Cambridge.

2. According to the chapter titled Post-Structuralism and Deconstruction, structuralism derives ultimately from ________.
(a) Linguistics.
(b) Hermeneutics.
(c) Mimesis.
(d) Formalism.

3. What is the name given to the movement that dominates the arts and culture of the first half of the twentieth century?
(a) Historicism.
(b) Structuralism.
(c) Feminism.
(d) Modernism.

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

5. According to the narrator in the Introduction, the term "liberal humanism" became current in what decade?
(a) 1930s.
(b) 1910s.
(c) 1920s.
(d) 1970s.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does the narrator say the reader will have the most difficulty as the result of what?

4. Which of F.R. Leavis's teachings was essentially a syllabus, manageable within a year-long undergraduate course?

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

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