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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 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?
(a) German.
(b) English.
(c) Spanish.
(d) French.

2. 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?
(a) Thomas Malory.
(b) Edwin Abbott.
(c) John Webster.
(d) Matthew Arnold.

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

4. The narrator explains that post-structuralism emerged in France in the late ________.
(a) 1960s.
(b) 1970s.
(c) 1930s.
(d) 1990s.

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 ________.
(a) Russia / the United States.
(b) Britain / Russia.
(c) The United States / Britain.
(d) France / Germany.

Short Answer Questions

1. Author Peter Barry explains that all of the following are part of the three stages of the deconstructive process except for which one?

2. What example did Saussure use to explain what he meant by saying that there are no intrinsic, fixed meanings in language?

3. According to the chapter titled Theory Before Theory--Liberal Humanism, structuralism and post-structuralism originated in what country?

4. According to the narrator in the Introduction, what two introductions to theory sources deal with the problems of teaching or learning theory?

5. I.A. Richards pioneered the technique called ________ which was also the title of his book in 1929.

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