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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The chapter titled "Postmodernism" states the term "postmodernism" was used in the 1930s, but its current sense and vogue can be said to have begun with ________'s "The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge."
(a) L.S. Lowry.
(b) Jean-Francois Lyotard.
(c) Jean Baudrillard.
(d) Mies van der Rohe.

2. The Introduction states that another name for traditional literary criticism is ________.
(a) Modern humanism.
(b) Independant humanism.
(c) Conservative humanism.
(d) Liberal humanism.

3. Whom does Peter Barry credit for being the first person and anthropologist to use structuralism in their work?
(a) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(b) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(c) W.B. Yeats.
(d) Alfred Tennyson.

4. What does Peter Barry say is the topic of the book Beginning Theory?
(a) English studies.
(b) Literary theory.
(c) Historical theory.
(d) Modern theory.

5. Who does the narrator say was the founder of a method of studying English which is still the norm today?
(a) Ralph Waldo Emerson.
(b) I.A. Richards.
(c) T.S. Eliot.
(d) Samuel Langhorne Clemens.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator explains that post-structuralism emerged in France in the late ________.

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

3. Author Peter Barry explains that all of the following are part of the three stages of the deconstructive process except for which one?

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

5. According to Peter Barry, where does post-structuralism ultimately derive from?

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