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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Peter Barry in the chapter titled Structuralism, the novel "Middlemarch" is an example of a literary ________.
(a) Icon.
(b) Parole.
(c) Pardigm.
(d) Paradigmatic.

2. Author Peter Barry explains that a major "moment" in the history of postmodernism was the influential paper "Modernity-an Incomplete Project" delivered by the contemporary ________ theorist ________.
(a) Polish / Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
(b) French / Guy de Maupassant.
(c) German / Jurgen Habermas.
(d) English / Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.

3. What is the name given to the movement that dominates the arts and culture of the first half of the twentieth century?
(a) Structuralism.
(b) Historicism.
(c) Feminism.
(d) Modernism.

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?
(a) Hermeneutics.
(b) Mimesis.
(c) Linguistics.
(d) Formalism.

5. All of the following authors were considered some of the literary "high priests" of the modernist movement according to the narrator in the chapter titled "Postmodernism," except for which one?
(a) T.S. Eliot.
(b) Virginia Woolf.
(c) John Milton.
(d) Gertrude Stein.

Short Answer 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."

2. Who was appointed Professor at King's College, London in 1840?

3. Who presented I.A. Richard with the manuscript of the book which was published in 1930 with the title Seven Types of Ambiguity?

4. What does Peter Barry say is the topic of the book Beginning Theory?

5. 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.

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