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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Nietzsche.
(c) Galileo Galilei.
(d) Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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

3. Jean Baudrillard was associated with what is usually known as ________ according to the narrator.
(a) The loss of the real.
(b) The forfeit of the real.
(c) The knowledge of the real.
(d) The gain of the real.

4. The narrator explains in the Introduction that the emphasis on practice means that this is what form of book?
(a) Manuscript.
(b) E-book.
(c) Work book.
(d) Missal.

5. Which modern architect proclaimed that "decoration is a crime" in the chapter titled "Postmodernism"?
(a) Adolf Loos.
(b) Kurt Switters.
(c) Le Corbusier.
(d) Samuel Beckett.

Short Answer Questions

1. Peter Barry explains that ________'s most significant thinking was contained in the essays "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time" and "The Study of Poetry."

2. The narrator states that the study of English literature was seen as a kind of substitute for ________.

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. Which of F.R. Leavis's teachings was essentially a syllabus, manageable within a year-long undergraduate course?

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

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