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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 suggests that liberal humanists believe in ________ as something fixed and constant which great literature expresses.
(a) Idealism.
(b) Human nature.
(c) Horizon of expectation.
(d) Diegesis.

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) Queen Mab.
(b) Cenci.
(c) A Defence of Poetry.
(d) The Necessity of Atheism.

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) William Empson.
(b) George Zebrowski.
(c) Kurt Vonnegut.
(d) Wilfred Owen.

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

5. ________ was probably the most influential figure in twentieth-century British criticism according to author Peter Barry.
(a) Patrick Tilley.
(b) Edward Jablonski.
(c) F.R. Leavis.
(d) Douglas Adams.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What was the term used in the Introduction that is defined as the science of signs?

3. In the Introduction, what university did author Peter Barry say he attended?

4. Who does the narrator say was the founder of a method of studying English which is still the norm today?

5. Who said the following quote found in the chapter titled Theory Before Theory--Liberal Humanism: "We are told that the study of literature 'cultivates the taste, educates the sympathies and enlarges the mind'"?

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