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WorksheetsChapter 7: Postmodernism
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 15mins
According to Postmodernism, which of the following affects how we see the world?
Culture
Language
Gender
All of the above
None of the above
According to Postmodernism, truth is what?
Objective
Universal
Neutral
Socially constructed
A and B only
Postmodernists claim that we can have what type of access to reality?
Unmeditated
Direct
Immediate
All of the above
None of the above
Which Postmodernist philosopher famously pronounced, "god is dead"?
Frederich Nietzsche
Michel Foucault
Walter Truett Anderson
Jean-Francis Lyotard
Richard Rorty
According to Postmodernism, language functions as what?
A means for describing objective reality.
A method for communicating truth.
A tool of power and manipulation.
A and B only
None of the above
Postmodernists doubt the objectivity of which of the following disciplines?
Evolutionary biology
Science
Math
All of the above
A and B only
According to Postmodernism, human beings are what?
Bodies and Souls
Persons
Centralized personalities
Social Constructs
None of the above
According to Postmodernism, the problem with humanity is our adherence to what?
Sophism
Nihilism
Metanarrative
All of the above
A and B only
Postmodernism rejects the metanarrative inherent in which of the following worldviews?
New Spirituality
Secularism
Marxism
All of the above
A and B only
On what point can Christians and Postmodernists find some agreement?
Our culture plays a role in shaping who we are.
Our experiences contribute to who we are.
Language can be used to manipulate people.
All of the above
None of the above
On what point can Christians and Postmodernism find some agreement?
We cannot judge between competing ideas.
We cannot perceive reality as it actually is.
All language is manipulative.
All of the above
None of the above
True or False: Postmodernism asserts that all worldviews offer unbiased truth claims about reality.
True
False
True and False: According to Postmodernism, universal truth can be known.
True
False
True or False: Postmodernists do not believe we can have objective knowledge.
True
False
True or False: According to Postmodernism, things do not have essence.
True
False
True or False: Postmodernists claim that the notion of subjective truth is used to press others.
True
Fasle
Nietzsche predicted that once we killed our belief in God, all truth, meaning, and morality would continue to exist without him.
True
False
Deconstruction says that the reader's interpretation is more important than the author's intent.
True
False
True or False: According to Postmodernism, there is meaning in the text.
True
Fasle
True or False: Postmodern literary criticism claims that words cannot accurately describe objects in the world.
True
Fasle
True or False: According to Postmodernism, words are about things.
True
Fasle
True or False: Postmodernism rejects all metanarratives.
True
False
True or False: According to Postmodernism, science cannot tell us what is true, only what science believe to be true.
True
False
True or False: To Postmodernists there is no such thing as human nature.
True
False
True or False: Postmodernism and middle-way Buddhism share a similar view of truth.
True
Fasle
_____ is characterized by a strong belief in human reason, empiricism, science, and technological progress as a well as skepticism towards towards religion.
Postmodernism
Modernism
Nihilism
Sophism
None of the above
_____ in an intellectual movement that believes humans knowledge is not based on an accurate understanding of reality but is the product of linguistically constructed forms or grammars that societies have developed over time.
Nihilism
Structuralism
Postsrtusturalism
Deconstruction
_____ is a method of literary analysis that seeks to expose the underlying ideology of a text.
Anti-realism
Deconstruction
Pragmatism
Metanarratives
Jean-Francis Lyotard describing Postmodernism as an "incredulity towards _____."
Metanarrative
Reality
Postmodernism
Pragmatism
The hybrid worldview of _____ _____ teaches that since we are fallen and limited, we should demonstrate Christian humility by refusing to make exclusive truth claims.
Anti-realism
Post Modernism
New Spirituality
Christian Postmodernism
