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

2. What does the narrator say the reader will have the most difficulty as the result of what?
(a) The way theory is written.
(b) The way theory was created.
(c) The way theory is taught.
(d) The way theory is told.

3. Author Peter Barry suggests that the reader uses a useful form of intensive reading known as ________.
(a) H2OO.
(b) NH2P.
(c) NACL2.
(d) SQ3R.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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. What term is used in the Introduction means not politically radical, and hence generally evasive and non-committal on political issues?

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

5. The narrator explains that the first prestigious name in English writing about literature was that of ________, who wrote his "Apology for Poetry" in about 1580.

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