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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. What example did Saussure use to explain what he meant by saying that there are no intrinsic, fixed meanings in language?
(a) Animal Farm.
(b) Ulysses.
(c) 8.25 Geneva to Paris.
(d) 1984.

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

3. According to Marxist literary criticism, what term is best defined as an outlook, values, tacit assumptions, half-realized allegiances, etc. and having a major bearing on what is written by a member of a social class?
(a) Diachrony.
(b) Hermeneutics.
(c) Ideology.
(d) Expressionism.

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

5. Who presented I.A. Richard with the manuscript of the book which was published in 1930 with the title Seven Types of Ambiguity?
(a) Wilfred Owen.
(b) Kurt Vonnegut.
(c) George Zebrowski.
(d) William Empson.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the early nineteenth-century American writer who received considerable attention from both structuralists and post-structuralists?

2. According to the narrator in the Introduction, the ________ probably saw the high-water mark of literary theory.

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. What was the name of the American journal that was considered the "house magazine" of the new historicism?

5. Whom does author Peter Barry say was a French psychoanalyst whose work had an extraordinary influence upon many aspects of recent literary theory and who began his career by taking a medical degree and then training in psychiatry in the 1920s?

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