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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Peter Barry say was the earliest work of theory written by Aristotle?
(a) Poetics.
(b) Generation of Animals.
(c) Metaphysics.
(d) Politics.

2. ________ is defined as the meanings of words according to Saussure.
(a) Hermeneutics.
(b) Canon.
(c) Episteme.
(d) Relational.

3. 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) Browning.
(c) Burke.
(d) Brooker.

4. Who was appointed Professor at King's College, London in 1840?
(a) F.D. Maurice.
(b) Frank McCourt.
(c) J.R.R. Tolkien.
(d) Nick Hornby.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what decade did "postmodernism" become current according to the author?

2. 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?

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

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?

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

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