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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. I.A. Richards pioneered the technique called ________ which was also the title of his book in 1929.
(a) Reception Theory.
(b) Practical Criticism.
(c) Sociological Criticism.
(d) Allegorical Interpretation.

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

3. All of the following religious believers were not allowed to attend university in England in the nineteenth century except which one?
(a) Atheist.
(b) Anglican.
(c) Jewish.
(d) Catholic.

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

5. The narrator explains in the Introduction that the emphasis on practice means that this is what form of book?
(a) Work book.
(b) Manuscript.
(c) E-book.
(d) Missal.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Peter Barry say was the earliest work of theory written by Aristotle?

3. 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.

4. Which of the following term best can be defined as one in which we cannot know where we are, since all the concepts which previously defined the center, and hence also the margins, have been "deconstructed," or undermined?

5. In the chapter titled Structuralism, Saussure used the terms ________ and ________ to signify language as a system or structure on the one hand, and any given utterance in that language on the other.

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