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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 does the narrator say the reader will have the most difficulty as the result of what?
(a) The way theory is written.
(b) The way theory is told.
(c) The way theory is taught.
(d) The way theory was created.

2. ________ is defined as the meanings of words according to Saussure.
(a) Relational.
(b) Hermeneutics.
(c) Canon.
(d) Episteme.

3. 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) Oscar Wilde.
(c) Lewis Carroll.
(d) Edward Freeman.

4. According to the narrator in the Introduction, the ________ probably saw the high-water mark of literary theory.
(a) 1980s.
(b) 1970s.
(c) 1990s.
(d) 1960s.

5. In the Introduction, what university did author Peter Barry say he attended?
(a) Harvard University.
(b) London University.
(c) Yale University.
(d) North Carolina State University.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Peter Barry, where does post-structuralism ultimately derive from?

2. The Introduction states that ________, like novelists, are dauntingly plentiful.

3. ________ was probably the most influential figure in twentieth-century British criticism according to author Peter Barry.

4. The narrator suggests that liberal humanists believe in ________ as something fixed and constant which great literature expresses.

5. Who was the first critic to develop a "reader-centered" approach to literature?

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