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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. 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) Virginia Woolf.
(b) Gertrude Stein.
(c) T.S. Eliot.
(d) John Milton.

2. David Lodge, Professor of English at Birmingham, combined the ideas of structuralism with more traditional approaches in which one of his books?
(a) Working with Structuralism.
(b) Beyond Structuralism.
(c) Beginning Structuralism.
(d) Transforming Structuralism.

3. The narrator explains that post-structuralism emerged in France in the late ________.
(a) 1960s.
(b) 1970s.
(c) 1930s.
(d) 1990s.

4. 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 ________.
(a) Britain / Russia.
(b) The United States / Britain.
(c) Russia / the United States.
(d) France / Germany.

5. Peter Barry examines Sigmund Freud's book ________, which in the chapter "Psychoanalytic Criticism" Barry claims is one of Freud's most enjoyable and accessible publications.
(a) The Psychopathology of Everyday Life.
(b) Character and Culture.
(c) Essentials of Psycho-Analysis The Definitive Collection of Sigmund Freud's Writing.
(d) General Psychological Theory.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following works did the narrator believe to be the most important Lacanian text for literary students and which was first delivered in 1957 to a "lay" audience of philosophy students?

2. Peter Barry affirms that Friedrich Engels was a German ________.

3. According to the chapter titled Post-Structuralism and Deconstruction, structuralism derives ultimately from ________.

4. Which of the following two writers were stigmatized as exemplars of "bourgeois decadence"?

5. Lacan argues that the two "dream work" mechanisms identified by Freud correspond to the basic poles of language, identified by the linguist Roman Jakobson, to ________ and ________.

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