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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 Theory Before Theory--Liberal Humanism states that the conventional reading of the origins of the subject of English is that this kind of thinking begins with who?
(a) Matthew Arnold.
(b) Thomas Malory.
(c) Edwin Abbott.
(d) John Webster.

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

3. 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) Absurdism.
(b) Binary oppositions.
(c) Allegorical Interpretation.
(d) Decentered universe.

4. According to the narrator in the Introduction, what two introductions to theory sources deal with the problems of teaching or learning theory?
(a) The Oval Portrait and The End of English.
(b) Literary Studies in Action and Texts and Contexts.
(c) After Theory and The Critical Decade.
(d) The Use of English and The English Review.

5. What where the only two universities in England in the nineteenth century?
(a) Birmingham and Buckingham.
(b) Kingston and Liverpool.
(c) Manchester and Winchester.
(d) Oxford and Cambridge.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. I.A. Richards pioneered the technique called ________ which was also the title of his book in 1929.

3. Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, and Shelley are authors of what form of writing, according to the chapter titled Theory Before Theory--Liberal Humanism?

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

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

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