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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. The narrator explains in the Introduction that the emphasis on practice means that this is what form of book?
(a) Work book.
(b) Manuscript.
(c) E-book.
(d) Missal.

2. 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 ________.
(a) Langue/parole.
(b) Metaphor / metonymy.
(c) Paradigm / paradigmatic.
(d) Intention / intentionality.

3. 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.

4. According to Peter Barry, the ________ aspect of discourse is characterized not by logic and order, but by "displacement, slippage, condensation."
(a) Semiotic.
(b) Imaginary.
(c) Natural.
(d) Symbolic.

5. The crucial essay "The Death of the Author" written in 1968 was the "hinge" around which ________ turned from structuralism to post-structuralism.
(a) Eddison.
(b) Johnson.
(c) Joyce.
(d) Barthes.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator suggests that liberal humanists believe in ________ as something fixed and constant which great literature expresses.

2. Which modern architect proclaimed that "decoration is a crime" in the chapter titled "Postmodernism"?

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

4. The British critic ________ described cultural materialism as "a politicized form of historiography."

5. All of the following religious believers were not allowed to attend university in England in the nineteenth century except which one?

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