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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was another name for the semic code found within the chapter titled Structuralism?
(a) Syntax.
(b) Universals.
(c) Tel Quel group.
(d) Connotative code.

2. Which of the following works of T.S. Eliot was a collage of juxtaposed, incomplete stories, or fragments of stories according to the chapter titled "Postmodernism"?
(a) Essays Ancient and Modern.
(b) Prufrock and Other Observations.
(c) The Waste Land.
(d) The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism.

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

4. The chapter "Postmodernism" details that Ezra Pound calls his major work, "The Cantos" a ________.
(a) Misprision.
(b) Paradox.
(c) Rag-bag.
(d) Praxis.

5. Who presented I.A. Richard with the manuscript of the book which was published in 1930 with the title Seven Types of Ambiguity?
(a) William Empson.
(b) George Zebrowski.
(c) Wilfred Owen.
(d) Kurt Vonnegut.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who does the narrator say was the founder of a method of studying English which is still the norm today?

4. 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"?

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

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