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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. 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) France / Germany.
(c) Britain / Russia.
(d) The United States / Britain.

2. The Introduction states that ________, like novelists, are dauntingly plentiful.
(a) Romanticists.
(b) Poets.
(c) Theorists.
(d) Journalists.

3. Whom does Peter Barry credit for being the first person and anthropologist to use structuralism in their work?
(a) Alfred Tennyson.
(b) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(c) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(d) W.B. Yeats.

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

5. Who was credited as being a key figure in the development of modern approaches to language study in the chapter titled Structuralism?
(a) Saki.
(b) Ferdinand de Saussure.
(c) Thomas de Quincey.
(d) Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the chapter titled Structuralism, what is another term for "alba," the poetic form dating from the twelfth century in which lovers lament the approach of daybreak?

2. What was another name for the semic code found within the chapter titled Structuralism?

3. In Percy Bysshe Shelley's ________(1821) saw poetry as essentially engaged in what a group of twentieth-century Russian critics later called "defamiliarization."

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

5. David Lodge, Professor of English at Birmingham, combined the ideas of structuralism with more traditional approaches in which one of his books?

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