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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) Manchester and Winchester.
(b) Kingston and Liverpool.
(c) Oxford and Cambridge.
(d) Birmingham and Buckingham.

2. From which of Babara Johnson's literary pieces can the following definition of deconstructive reading be found according to author Peter Barry: "Deconstruction is not synonymous with 'destruction.' It is in fact much closer to the original meaning of the word 'analysis,' which etymologically means 'to undo'"?
(a) Of Grammatology.
(b) Trustee from the Toolroom.
(c) The Critical Difference.
(d) The Age of Innocence.

3. The Introduction states that another name for traditional literary criticism is ________.
(a) Modern humanism.
(b) Conservative humanism.
(c) Independant humanism.
(d) Liberal humanism.

4. Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, and Shelley are authors of what form of writing, according to the chapter titled Theory Before Theory--Liberal Humanism?
(a) Investigative journalists.
(b) Science-fiction writers.
(c) Mystery fiction writers.
(d) Romantic poets.

5. 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) Voltaire.
(b) Mark Twain.
(c) Matthew Arnold.
(d) William Shakespeare.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who presented I.A. Richard with the manuscript of the book which was published in 1930 with the title Seven Types of Ambiguity?

2. What term is used in the Introduction means not politically radical, and hence generally evasive and non-committal on political issues?

3. ________ was founded on the notion of close reading, according to the narrator.

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

5. 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.

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