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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. 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) Romantic poets.
(c) Investigative journalists.
(d) Mystery fiction writers.

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

3. The panopticon was a design for a circular prison conceived by the eighteenth-century utilitarian ________.
(a) Ray Bradbury.
(b) Anthony Burgess.
(c) Sigmund Freud.
(d) Jeremy Bentham.

4. Peter Barry states that ________ is best understood by seeing it initially in the context of its own origins within feminism in the 1980s.
(a) Beginning feminism.
(b) Endangered feminism.
(c) Radical feminism.
(d) Lesbian feminism.

5. Who is credited with saying that the textuality of history is "an intensified willingness to read all of the textual traces of the past with the attention traditionally conferred only on literary texts"?
(a) Louis.
(b) Greenblatt.
(c) Montrose.
(d) Dutton.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What term does the narrator explain was a popular term in deconstructive criticism and literally means an impasse?

3. The chapter "Postmodernism" details that Ezra Pound calls his major work, "The Cantos" a ________.

4. Lesbian theory that broke away from feminism and made new allegiances, in particular, with gay men rather than with other women is called "queer theory" or ________.

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

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