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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. 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) Matthew Arnold.
(b) John Webster.
(c) Thomas Malory.
(d) Edwin Abbott.
2. According to the chapter titled Post-Structuralism and Deconstruction, structuralism derives ultimately from ________.
(a) Hermeneutics.
(b) Linguistics.
(c) Formalism.
(d) Mimesis.
3. Author Peter Barry suggests that the reader uses a useful form of intensive reading known as ________.
(a) NH2P.
(b) H2OO.
(c) SQ3R.
(d) NACL2.
4. 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'"?
(a) Elie Wiesel.
(b) Lewis Carroll.
(c) Edward Freeman.
(d) Oscar Wilde.
5. What does Peter Barry say was the earliest work of theory written by Aristotle?
(a) Generation of Animals.
(b) Poetics.
(c) Politics.
(d) Metaphysics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What term suggests a range of negative attributes, such as "non-Marxist" and "non-feminist," and "non-theoretical"?
2. The narrator explains that post-structuralism emerged in France in the late ________.
3. All of the following religious believers were not allowed to attend university in England in the nineteenth century except which one?
4. According to Peter Barry in the chapter titled "Post-Structuralism and Deconstruction," post-structuralist critics seek to show that the text is characterized by ________ rather than unity.
5. The Introduction states that ________, like novelists, are dauntingly plentiful.
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