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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through New historicism and cultural materialism.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which modern architect proclaimed that "decoration is a crime" in the chapter titled "Postmodernism"?
(a) Samuel Beckett.
(b) Kurt Switters.
(c) Le Corbusier.
(d) Adolf Loos.

2. In the chapter titled "Lesbian / Gay Criticism," it states that lesbian and gay literary theory emerged prominently as a distinct field only in the ________.
(a) 1990s.
(b) 2000s.
(c) 1960s.
(d) 1970s.

3. In the chapter titled Post-Structuralism and Deconstruction, whose famous remark on philosophy was, "There are no facts, only interpretations"?
(a) Galileo Galilei.
(b) Nietzsche.
(c) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(d) Ralph Waldo Emerson.

4. The narrator explains that those abroad who were sympathetic to the ideas of Communism tried to follow the ________ on matters where an official Party policy existed, hence the international influence of the Leninist views.
(a) Independent line.
(b) Census line.
(c) Soviet line.
(d) Moscow line.

5. ________ was probably the most influential figure in twentieth-century British criticism according to author Peter Barry.
(a) Douglas Adams.
(b) F.R. Leavis.
(c) Edward Jablonski.
(d) Patrick Tilley.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following essays is an example of new historicism in practice written by Louis Montrose?

3. In the following statement found in the chapter "New Historicism and Cultural Materialism," what does the word "panoptic" mean: "Michel Foucault's pervasive image of the state is that of 'panoptic'"?

4. The chapter titled "Psychoanalytic Criticism" discusses the use by the unconscious of these linguistic means of self-expression is part of ________'s evidence for the claim that the unconscious is structured like a language.

5. The narrator reveals that the modern period began with the ________.

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