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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 where the only two universities in England in the nineteenth century?
(a) Kingston and Liverpool.
(b) Birmingham and Buckingham.
(c) Manchester and Winchester.
(d) Oxford and Cambridge.

2. According to the chapter titled Structuralism, what is another term for "alba," the poetic form dating from the twelfth century in which lovers lament the approach of daybreak?
(a) Morning love.
(b) Dawn song.
(c) Morning glory.
(d) Breaking dawn.

3. In the chapter titled Structuralism, the narrator explains that ________ applied the structuralism method to the general field of modern culture.
(a) Roland Barthes.
(b) Isaac Newton.
(c) Friedrich Nietzsche.
(d) Edgar Allan Poe.

4. What was the term used in the Introduction that is defined as the science of signs?
(a) Semiotics.
(b) Logocentrism.
(c) Mimesis.
(d) Phenomenology.

5. 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.
(a) Genre.
(b) Discourse.
(c) Indeterminacy.
(d) Disunity.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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."

2. ________ is defined as the meanings of words according to Saussure.

3. The narrator states that the study of English literature was seen as a kind of substitute for ________.

4. 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.

5. According to the narrator in the Introduction, the term "liberal humanism" became current in what decade?

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