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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. What is the name of the early nineteenth-century American writer who received considerable attention from both structuralists and post-structuralists?
(a) Mark Twain.
(b) Edgar Allan Poe.
(c) Victor Hugo.
(d) Washington Irving.
2. The Introduction states that another name for traditional literary criticism is ________.
(a) Liberal humanism.
(b) Conservative humanism.
(c) Independant humanism.
(d) Modern humanism.
3. According to the chapter titled Theory Before Theory--Liberal Humanism, structuralism and post-structuralism originated in what country?
(a) France.
(b) Britain.
(c) Russia.
(d) United States.
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) Voltaire.
(c) Mark Twain.
(d) William Shakespeare.
5. The narrator states that the study of English literature was seen as a kind of substitute for ________.
(a) History.
(b) Religion.
(c) Science.
(d) Social studies.
Short Answer Questions
1. David Lodge, Professor of English at Birmingham, combined the ideas of structuralism with more traditional approaches in which one of his books?
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.
3. Author Peter Barry suggests that the reader uses a useful form of intensive reading known as ________.
4. The narrator explains that post-structuralism emerged in France in the late ________.
5. 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 ________.
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