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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. Whom does Peter Barry credit for being the first person and anthropologist to use structuralism in their work?
(a) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(b) W.B. Yeats.
(c) Alfred Tennyson.
(d) F. Scott Fitzgerald.

2. The narrator explains that those abroad who were sympathetic to the ideas of Communism tried to follow the ________ on matters where an official Party policy existed, hence the international influence of the Leninist views.
(a) Independent line.
(b) Moscow line.
(c) Census line.
(d) Soviet line.

3. In what decade did "postmodernism" become current according to the author?
(a) 1950s.
(b) 1980s.
(c) 1910s.
(d) 1990s.

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

5. Who was appointed Professor at King's College, London in 1840?
(a) F.D. Maurice.
(b) J.R.R. Tolkien.
(c) Frank McCourt.
(d) Nick Hornby.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Author Peter Barry suggests that the reader uses a useful form of intensive reading known as ________.

3. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels were the join founders of the school of________ according to the Chapter titled "Marxist Criticism."

4. Who does Peter Barry credit with partially defusing the conflict between heterosexual feminists and lesbians in an important essay which introduced the notion of the "lesbian continuum"?

5. Karl Marx is described by Peter Barry as being a German ________.

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