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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) English.
(b) German.
(c) French.
(d) Spanish.

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) Burke.
(c) Butler.
(d) Browning.

3. In the chapter titled Post-Structuralism and Deconstruction, whose famous remark on philosophy was, "There are no facts, only interpretations"?
(a) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(b) Galileo Galilei.
(c) Nietzsche.
(d) Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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

5. According to the chapter titled Structuralism, what is another term for "alba," the poetic form dating from the twelfth century in which lovers lament the approach of daybreak?
(a) Morning glory.
(b) Dawn song.
(c) Breaking dawn.
(d) Morning love.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to the chapter titled Theory Before Theory--Liberal Humanism, structuralism and post-structuralism originated in what country?

3. The narrator informs the reader that in the early 1980s, two new forms of political/historical criticism emerged, new historicism from ________ and cultural materialism from ________.

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

5. 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"?

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