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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. ________ was probably the most influential figure in twentieth-century British criticism according to author Peter Barry.
(a) Edward Jablonski.
(b) Douglas Adams.
(c) Patrick Tilley.
(d) F.R. Leavis.

3. What language does the narrator describe as being a Romance language that takes most of its words directly from Latin, and lacks the reassuring Anglo-Saxon layer of vocabulary?
(a) German.
(b) Spanish.
(c) English.
(d) French.

4. Which of the following best fits the definition of a discipline which has always been inherently confident about the possibility of establishing objective knowledge?
(a) Mimesis.
(b) Hermeneutics.
(c) Formalism.
(d) Linguistics.

5. The crucial essay "The Death of the Author" written in 1968 was the "hinge" around which ________ turned from structuralism to post-structuralism.
(a) Joyce.
(b) Eddison.
(c) Johnson.
(d) Barthes.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The narrator reveals that the modern period began with the ________.

3. Who said the following quote found in the chapter titled Theory Before Theory--Liberal Humanism: "We are told that the study of literature 'cultivates the taste, educates the sympathies and enlarges the mind'"?

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

5. David Lodge, Professor of English at Birmingham, combined the ideas of structuralism with more traditional approaches in which one of his books?

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