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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In the Introduction, what university did author Peter Barry say he attended?
(a) London University.
(b) Yale University.
(c) Harvard University.
(d) North Carolina State University.

3. Which of the following works of T.S. Eliot was a collage of juxtaposed, incomplete stories, or fragments of stories according to the chapter titled "Postmodernism"?
(a) Prufrock and Other Observations.
(b) The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism.
(c) The Waste Land.
(d) Essays Ancient and Modern.

4. Which of the following best fits the definition of a discipline which has always been inherently confident about the possibility of establishing objective knowledge?
(a) Mimesis.
(b) Formalism.
(c) Hermeneutics.
(d) Linguistics.

5. 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.
(a) Semantics / largest.
(b) Bliss / largest.
(c) Rhetoric / moderate.
(d) mytheme / smallest.

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. Who presented I.A. Richard with the manuscript of the book which was published in 1930 with the title Seven Types of Ambiguity?

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

4. Jean Baudrillard was associated with what is usually known as ________ according to the narrator.

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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