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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. According to the narrator in the Introduction, the ________ probably saw the high-water mark of literary theory.
(a) 1980s.
(b) 1960s.
(c) 1970s.
(d) 1990s.

2. The notion of the ________, posited by Levi-Strauss, denoting the minimal units of narrative "sense," is formed on the analogy of the morpheme, which, in linguistics, is the ________ unit of grammatical sense.
(a) mytheme / smallest.
(b) Rhetoric / moderate.
(c) Semantics / largest.
(d) Bliss / largest.

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

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

5. What where the only two universities in England in the nineteenth century?
(a) Birmingham and Buckingham.
(b) Manchester and Winchester.
(c) Oxford and Cambridge.
(d) Kingston and Liverpool.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator explains in the Introduction that the emphasis on practice means that this is what form of book?

2. What language does the narrator describe as being a Romance language that takes most of its words directly from Latin, and lacks the reassuring Anglo-Saxon layer of vocabulary?

3. According to Peter Barry, where does post-structuralism ultimately derive from?

4. What term suggests a range of negative attributes, such as "non-Marxist" and "non-feminist," and "non-theoretical"?

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

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