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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Postmodernism.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator states that the study of English literature was seen as a kind of substitute for ________.
(a) Religion.
(b) Social studies.
(c) History.
(d) Science.

2. 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.

3. The Introduction states that ________, like novelists, are dauntingly plentiful.
(a) Romanticists.
(b) Theorists.
(c) Poets.
(d) Journalists.

4. What does Peter Barry say was the earliest work of theory written by Aristotle?
(a) Politics.
(b) Poetics.
(c) Metaphysics.
(d) Generation of Animals.

5. What was the name of the American literature lecturer mentioned in the Introduction who died in January of 1995?
(a) Samuel Jackson.
(b) Edward Hardy.
(c) Eric Mottram.
(d) Charles Devine.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the chapter titled Structuralism, Saussure used the terms ________ and ________ to signify language as a system or structure on the one hand, and any given utterance in that language on the other.

2. ________ was founded on the notion of close reading, according to the narrator.

3. The chapter "Postmodernism" details that Ezra Pound calls his major work, "The Cantos" a ________.

4. What term suggests a range of negative attributes, such as "non-Marxist" and "non-feminist," and "non-theoretical"?

5. 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?

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