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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. Karl Marx is described by Peter Barry as being a German ________.
(a) Philosopher.
(b) Criminologist.
(c) Zoologist.
(d) Scientist.

2. According to the chapter titled Post-Structuralism and Deconstruction, structuralism derives ultimately from ________.
(a) Mimesis.
(b) Hermeneutics.
(c) Linguistics.
(d) Formalism.

3. 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"?
(a) Anne Koedt.
(b) Bonnie Zimmerman.
(c) Adrienne Rich.
(d) Muriel Spark.

4. In the chapter titled Structuralism, the narrator explains that ________ applied the structuralism method to the general field of modern culture.
(a) Edgar Allan Poe.
(b) Roland Barthes.
(c) Friedrich Nietzsche.
(d) Isaac Newton.

5. ________ is defined as a discipline which has always tended to emphasize the difficulty of achieving secure knowledge about things.
(a) Sociology.
(b) Philosophy.
(c) Psychology.
(d) Criminology.

Short Answer Questions

1. The crucial essay "The Death of the Author" written in 1968 was the "hinge" around which ________ turned from structuralism to post-structuralism.

2. The Introduction states that another name for traditional literary criticism is ________.

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?

4. What where the only two universities in England in the nineteenth century?

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

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