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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the early nineteenth-century American writer who received considerable attention from both structuralists and post-structuralists?
(a) Victor Hugo.
(b) Edgar Allan Poe.
(c) Washington Irving.
(d) Mark Twain.

2. The narrator explains that the first prestigious name in English writing about literature was that of ________, who wrote his "Apology for Poetry" in about 1580.
(a) Sir Philip Sidney.
(b) Geoffrey Chaucer.
(c) Archimedes.
(d) William Blake.

3. According to Peter Barry, where does post-structuralism ultimately derive from?
(a) Physics.
(b) Philosophy.
(c) Pyschology.
(d) Zoology.

4. According to the narrator in the Introduction, the ________ probably saw the high-water mark of literary theory.
(a) 1960s.
(b) 1990s.
(c) 1970s.
(d) 1980s.

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) George Zebrowski.
(b) Kurt Vonnegut.
(c) William Empson.
(d) Wilfred Owen.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Percy Bysshe Shelley's ________(1821) saw poetry as essentially engaged in what a group of twentieth-century Russian critics later called "defamiliarization."

2. 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."

3. The narrator explains in the Introduction that the emphasis on practice means that this is what form of book?

4. What term suggests a range of negative attributes, such as "non-Marxist" and "non-feminist," and "non-theoretical"?

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

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