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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 the following best fits the definition of a discipline which has always been inherently confident about the possibility of establishing objective knowledge?
(a) Formalism.
(b) Linguistics.
(c) Hermeneutics.
(d) Mimesis.

2. In the chapter titled Structuralism, the narrator explains that ________ applied the structuralism method to the general field of modern culture.
(a) Isaac Newton.
(b) Friedrich Nietzsche.
(c) Roland Barthes.
(d) Edgar Allan Poe.

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

4. According to Peter Barry in the chapter titled Structuralism, the novel "Middlemarch" is an example of a literary ________.
(a) Icon.
(b) Parole.
(c) Pardigm.
(d) Paradigmatic.

5. What term does the narrator explain was a popular term in deconstructive criticism and literally means an impasse?
(a) Parole.
(b) Imagism.
(c) Langue.
(d) Aporia.

Short Answer Questions

1. Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, and Shelley are authors of what form of writing, according to the chapter titled Theory Before Theory--Liberal Humanism?

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

3. All of the following religious believers were not allowed to attend university in England in the nineteenth century except which one?

4. What was the name of the American literature lecturer mentioned in the Introduction who died in January of 1995?

5. Whom does Peter Barry credit for being the first person and anthropologist to use structuralism in their work?

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