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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Post-structuralism and deconstruction.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The Introduction states that another name for traditional literary criticism is ________.
(a) Liberal humanism.
(b) Conservative humanism.
(c) Independant humanism.
(d) Modern humanism.

3. The narrator states that the study of English literature was seen as a kind of substitute for ________.
(a) Religion.
(b) History.
(c) Social studies.
(d) Science.

4. What does Peter Barry say was the earliest work of theory written by Aristotle?
(a) Politics.
(b) Poetics.
(c) Generation of Animals.
(d) Metaphysics.

5. According to the chapter titled Theory Before Theory--Liberal Humanism, structuralism and post-structuralism originated in what country?
(a) France.
(b) Britain.
(c) Russia.
(d) United States.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to the narrator in the Introduction, the term "liberal humanism" became current in what decade?

3. The crucial essay "The Death of the Author" written in 1968 was the "hinge" around which ________ turned from structuralism to post-structuralism.

4. The Introduction states that ________, like novelists, are dauntingly plentiful.

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

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