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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. ________ was probably the most influential figure in twentieth-century British criticism according to author Peter Barry.
(a) Douglas Adams.
(b) Edward Jablonski.
(c) F.R. Leavis.
(d) Patrick Tilley.

2. Who was appointed Professor at King's College, London in 1840?
(a) J.R.R. Tolkien.
(b) F.D. Maurice.
(c) Frank McCourt.
(d) Nick Hornby.

3. 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.
(a) Paradigm / paradigmatic.
(b) Langue / parole.
(c) Logocentrism / margin.
(d) Humanism / icon.

4. According to the chapter titled Theory Before Theory--Liberal Humanism, structuralism and post-structuralism originated in what country?
(a) France.
(b) Britain.
(c) Russia.
(d) United States.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. David Lodge, Professor of English at Birmingham, combined the ideas of structuralism with more traditional approaches in which one of his books?

2. The narrator explains that post-structuralism emerged in France in the late ________.

3. What term suggests a range of negative attributes, such as "non-Marxist" and "non-feminist," and "non-theoretical"?

4. What where the only two universities in England in the nineteenth century?

5. Author Peter Barry suggests that the reader uses a useful form of intensive reading known as ________.

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