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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the major theorist of postmodernism and French writer of the book "Simulations"?
(a) Jean-Francois Lyotard.
(b) Stephane Mallarme.
(c) Andre Gide.
(d) Jean Baudrillard.

2. Peter Barry explains that ________'s most significant thinking was contained in the essays "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time" and "The Study of Poetry."
(a) Voltaire.
(b) Mark Twain.
(c) Matthew Arnold.
(d) William Shakespeare.

3. 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?
(a) Allegorical Interpretation.
(b) Absurdism.
(c) Decentered universe.
(d) Binary oppositions.

4. David Lodge, Professor of English at Birmingham, combined the ideas of structuralism with more traditional approaches in which one of his books?
(a) Transforming Structuralism.
(b) Working with Structuralism.
(c) Beginning Structuralism.
(d) Beyond Structuralism.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the chapter titled Post-Structuralism and Deconstruction, whose famous remark on philosophy was, "There are no facts, only interpretations"?

2. The narrator explains in the Introduction that the emphasis on practice means that this is what form of book?

3. Author Peter Barry suggests that the reader uses a useful form of intensive reading known as ________.

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

5. The narrator explains that post-structuralism emerged in France in the late ________.

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