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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of F.R. Leavis's teachings was essentially a syllabus, manageable within a year-long undergraduate course?
(a) Great Tradition.
(b) Great American Literature.
(c) Great Expectations.
(d) Great Explorations.

2. The narrator informs the reader that in the early 1980s, two new forms of political/historical criticism emerged, new historicism from ________ and cultural materialism from ________.
(a) Russia / the United States.
(b) Britain / Russia.
(c) The United States / Britain.
(d) France / Germany.

3. What is the name given to the movement that dominates the arts and culture of the first half of the twentieth century?
(a) Historicism.
(b) Structuralism.
(c) Feminism.
(d) Modernism.

4. Jean Baudrillard was associated with what is usually known as ________ according to the narrator.
(a) The gain of the real.
(b) The loss of the real.
(c) The knowledge of the real.
(d) The forfeit of the real.

5. Author Peter Barry explains that all of the following are part of the three stages of the deconstructive process except for which one?
(a) Verbal.
(b) Linguistic.
(c) Textual.
(d) Visual.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which modern architect proclaimed that "decoration is a crime" in the chapter titled "Postmodernism"?

3. According to Peter Barry in the chapter titled "Post-Structuralism and Deconstruction," post-structuralist critics seek to show that the text is characterized by ________ rather than unity.

4. I.A. Richards pioneered the technique called ________ which was also the title of his book in 1929.

5. Who was appointed Professor at King's College, London in 1840?

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