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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 Peter Barry, where does post-structuralism ultimately derive from?
(a) Zoology.
(b) Philosophy.
(c) Pyschology.
(d) Physics.

2. ________ is defined as a discipline which has always tended to emphasize the difficulty of achieving secure knowledge about things.
(a) Philosophy.
(b) Psychology.
(c) Criminology.
(d) Sociology.

3. The narrator suggests that liberal humanists believe in ________ as something fixed and constant which great literature expresses.
(a) Idealism.
(b) Diegesis.
(c) Horizon of expectation.
(d) Human nature.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was credited as being a key figure in the development of modern approaches to language study in the chapter titled Structuralism?

2. According to Peter Barry in the chapter titled Structuralism, the novel "Middlemarch" is an example of a literary ________.

3. I.A. Richards pioneered the technique called ________ which was also the title of his book in 1929.

4. What was the name of the American literature lecturer mentioned in the Introduction who died in January of 1995?

5. Which of the following term best can be defined as one in which we cannot know where we are, since all the concepts which previously defined the center, and hence also the margins, have been "deconstructed," or undermined?

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