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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 explains that a major "moment" in the history of postmodernism was the influential paper "Modernity-an Incomplete Project" delivered by the contemporary ________ theorist ________.
(a) French / Guy de Maupassant.
(b) Polish / Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
(c) German / Jurgen Habermas.
(d) English / Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.

2. Peter Barry explains that ________'s most significant thinking was contained in the essays "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time" and "The Study of Poetry."
(a) Voltaire.
(b) Matthew Arnold.
(c) Mark Twain.
(d) William Shakespeare.

3. The narrator informs the reader that in the early 1980s, two new forms of political/historical criticism emerged, new historicism from ________ and cultural materialism from ________.
(a) Britain / Russia.
(b) France / Germany.
(c) The United States / Britain.
(d) Russia / the United States.

4. Which of the following term best can be defined as one in which we cannot know where we are, since all the concepts which previously defined the center, and hence also the margins, have been "deconstructed," or undermined?
(a) Binary oppositions.
(b) Absurdism.
(c) Decentered universe.
(d) Allegorical Interpretation.

5. 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) Butler.
(b) Burke.
(c) Browning.
(d) Brooker.

Short Answer Questions

1. ________ is defined as a discipline which has always tended to emphasize the difficulty of achieving secure knowledge about things.

2. What term does the narrator explain was a popular term in deconstructive criticism and literally means an impasse?

3. The crucial essay "The Death of the Author" written in 1968 was the "hinge" around which ________ turned from structuralism to post-structuralism.

4. What does Peter Barry say is the topic of the book Beginning Theory?

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

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