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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the term used in the Introduction that is defined as the science of signs?
(a) Logocentrism.
(b) Mimesis.
(c) Phenomenology.
(d) Semiotics.

2. ________ was founded on the notion of close reading, according to the narrator.
(a) Humanities.
(b) Social studies.
(c) Sociology.
(d) English studies.

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

4. 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) German / Jurgen Habermas.
(b) English / Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.
(c) French / Guy de Maupassant.
(d) Polish / Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

5. ________ is defined as a discipline which has always tended to emphasize the difficulty of achieving secure knowledge about things.
(a) Psychology.
(b) Philosophy.
(c) Sociology.
(d) Criminology.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Peter Barry in the chapter titled "Post-Structuralism and Deconstruction," post-structuralist critics seek to show that the text is characterized by ________ rather than unity.

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.

3. 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."

4. Who was the first critic to develop a "reader-centered" approach to literature?

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

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