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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 Introduction states that another name for traditional literary criticism is ________.
(a) Liberal humanism.
(b) Independant humanism.
(c) Conservative humanism.
(d) Modern humanism.

2. The chapter "Feminist Criticism" informs the reader that "for her notion of the basic opposition between semiotic and the symbolic Kristeva was indebted to Jacques Lacan and his distinction between two realms, the ________ and the ________.
(a) Story / discourse.
(b) Syntagm / syntagmatic.
(c) Imaginary / symbolic.
(d) Reference / referent.

3. 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) English / Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.
(c) German / Jurgen Habermas.
(d) Polish / Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

4. According to the narrator in the chapter titled "Feminist Criticism, the "Anglo-American" tradition appeared when?
(a) Early 1990s.
(b) Early 1960s.
(c) Mid 1980s.
(d) Late 1970s.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Julia Kristeva's essay "The System and the Speaking Subject," the ________ aspect is associated with authority, order, fathers, repression, and control.

2. 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?

3. ________ was probably the most influential figure in twentieth-century British criticism according to author Peter Barry.

4. Which of the following term best can be defined as one in which we cannot know where we are, since all the concepts which previously defined the center, and hence also the margins, have been "deconstructed," or undermined?

5. In the chapter titled "Feminist Criticism," which group did author Peter Barry say maintained a major interest in traditional critical concepts like theme, motif, and characterization?

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