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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Theory before theory - liberal humanism.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In Percy Bysshe Shelley's ________(1821) saw poetry as essentially engaged in what a group of twentieth-century Russian critics later called "defamiliarization."
(a) The Necessity of Atheism.
(b) A Defence of Poetry.
(c) Queen Mab.
(d) Cenci.

3. Who presented I.A. Richard with the manuscript of the book which was published in 1930 with the title Seven Types of Ambiguity?
(a) George Zebrowski.
(b) Kurt Vonnegut.
(c) Wilfred Owen.
(d) William Empson.

4. Peter Barry explains that ________'s most significant thinking was contained in the essays "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time" and "The Study of Poetry."
(a) Matthew Arnold.
(b) William Shakespeare.
(c) Voltaire.
(d) Mark Twain.

5. What term suggests a range of negative attributes, such as "non-Marxist" and "non-feminist," and "non-theoretical"?
(a) Absurdism.
(b) Modernism.
(c) Humanism.
(d) Dialogism.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the narrator in the Introduction, the ________ probably saw the high-water mark of literary theory.

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

3. Who was the first critic to develop a "reader-centered" approach to literature?

4. The chapter titled Theory Before Theory--Liberal Humanism states that the conventional reading of the origins of the subject of English is that this kind of thinking begins with who?

5. Who was appointed Professor at King's College, London in 1840?

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