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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. In the chapter titled Post-Structuralism and Deconstruction, whose famous remark on philosophy was, "There are no facts, only interpretations"?
(a) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(b) Ralph Waldo Emerson.
(c) Galileo Galilei.
(d) Nietzsche.

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

3. According to the chapter titled "Marxist Criticism," what was the name of the group that had flourished in the 1920s until disbanded by the Party, even though their work was not strictly Marxist in spirit?
(a) Russian Formalists.
(b) Irish Formalists.
(c) German Formalists.
(d) Korean Formalists.

4. What was another name for the semic code found within the chapter titled Structuralism?
(a) Connotative code.
(b) Syntax.
(c) Universals.
(d) Tel Quel group.

5. Barry states in the chapter titled "Feminist Criticism" that the British "socialist feminist" tradition produced its key works in the ________.
(a) Late 1990s.
(b) Early 1970s.
(c) Late 1950s.
(d) Mid 1980s.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Peter Barry credit for being the first person and anthropologist to use structuralism in their work?

2. The notion of the ________, posited by Levi-Strauss, denoting the minimal units of narrative "sense," is formed on the analogy of the morpheme, which, in linguistics, is the ________ unit of grammatical sense.

3. What does Peter Barry say is the topic of the book Beginning Theory?

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

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

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