Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory Quiz | Eight Week Quiz D

Peter Barry
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Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory Quiz | Eight Week Quiz D

Peter Barry
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Psychoanalytic criticism.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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"?
(a) The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism.
(b) Prufrock and Other Observations.
(c) Essays Ancient and Modern.
(d) The Waste Land.

2. Sigmund Freud believed that a ________ was an escape-hatch or safety-valve through which repressed desires, fears, or memories seek an outlet into the conscious mind.
(a) Fetish.
(b) Dream.
(c) Memoir.
(d) Poem.

3. Who was the major theorist of postmodernism and French writer of the book "Simulations"?
(a) Jean Baudrillard.
(b) Jean-Francois Lyotard.
(c) Stephane Mallarme.
(d) Andre Gide.

4. In the Introduction, what university did author Peter Barry say he attended?
(a) London University.
(b) North Carolina State University.
(c) Yale University.
(d) Harvard University.

5. Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, and Shelley are authors of what form of writing, according to the chapter titled Theory Before Theory--Liberal Humanism?
(a) Science-fiction writers.
(b) Mystery fiction writers.
(c) Investigative journalists.
(d) Romantic poets.

Short Answer Questions

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

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"?

3. In the chapter titled Post-Structuralism and Deconstruction, whose famous remark on philosophy was, "There are no facts, only interpretations"?

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

5. What was another name for the semic code found within the chapter titled Structuralism?

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