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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through New historicism and cultural materialism.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the chapter titled Theory Before Theory--Liberal Humanism, structuralism and post-structuralism originated in what country?
(a) France.
(b) Britain.
(c) Russia.
(d) United States.

2. According to Peter Barry, the aim of Marxism was to bring about a ________ society, based on the common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange.
(a) Lawless.
(b) Homeless.
(c) Classless.
(d) Thoughtless.

3. Whom does Peter Barry credit for being the first person and anthropologist to use structuralism in their work?
(a) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(b) W.B. Yeats.
(c) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(d) Alfred Tennyson.

4. Author Peter Barry explains that all of the following are part of the three stages of the deconstructive process except for which one?
(a) Textual.
(b) Verbal.
(c) Visual.
(d) Linguistic.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. The notion of the ________, posited by Levi-Strauss, denoting the minimal units of narrative "sense," is formed on the analogy of the morpheme, which, in linguistics, is the ________ unit of grammatical sense.

2. 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."

3. According to the chapter "New Historicism and Cultural Materialism," the notion of the state as all-powerful and all-seeing stems from the post-structuralist cultural historian ________.

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

5. Peter Barry states that ________ is best understood by seeing it initially in the context of its own origins within feminism in the 1980s.

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