Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory Quiz | Four Week Quiz A

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Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory Quiz | Four Week Quiz A

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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. According to the narrator in the Introduction, the term "liberal humanism" became current in what decade?
(a) 1970s.
(b) 1930s.
(c) 1910s.
(d) 1920s.

2. 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) Oscar Wilde.
(b) Lewis Carroll.
(c) Edward Freeman.
(d) Elie Wiesel.

3. Peter Barry explains that ________'s most significant thinking was contained in the essays "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time" and "The Study of Poetry."
(a) Mark Twain.
(b) Matthew Arnold.
(c) Voltaire.
(d) William Shakespeare.

4. What was the name of the American literature lecturer mentioned in the Introduction who died in January of 1995?
(a) Edward Hardy.
(b) Eric Mottram.
(c) Samuel Jackson.
(d) Charles Devine.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the early nineteenth-century American writer who received considerable attention from both structuralists and post-structuralists?

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?

3. In Percy Bysshe Shelley's ________(1821) saw poetry as essentially engaged in what a group of twentieth-century Russian critics later called "defamiliarization."

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

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

(see the answer key)

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