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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Postmodernism.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. According to the chapter titled Structuralism, what is another term for "alba," the poetic form dating from the twelfth century in which lovers lament the approach of daybreak?
(a) Breaking dawn.
(b) Morning love.
(c) Dawn song.
(d) Morning glory.
2. 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) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(d) Alfred Tennyson.
3. What where the only two universities in England in the nineteenth century?
(a) Oxford and Cambridge.
(b) Manchester and Winchester.
(c) Birmingham and Buckingham.
(d) Kingston and Liverpool.
4. The Introduction states that ________, like novelists, are dauntingly plentiful.
(a) Journalists.
(b) Theorists.
(c) Poets.
(d) Romanticists.
5. What was another name for the semic code found within the chapter titled Structuralism?
(a) Tel Quel group.
(b) Syntax.
(c) Connotative code.
(d) Universals.
Short Answer Questions
1. The narrator suggests that liberal humanists believe in ________ as something fixed and constant which great literature expresses.
2. 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 ________.
3. The chapter titled "Postmodernism" states the term "postmodernism" was used in the 1930s, but its current sense and vogue can be said to have begun with ________'s "The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge."
4. ________ was probably the most influential figure in twentieth-century British criticism according to author Peter Barry.
5. What is the name of the early nineteenth-century American writer who received considerable attention from both structuralists and post-structuralists?
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