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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. The narrator explains that the first prestigious name in English writing about literature was that of ________, who wrote his "Apology for Poetry" in about 1580.
(a) Archimedes.
(b) Sir Philip Sidney.
(c) Geoffrey Chaucer.
(d) William Blake.

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. According to the narrator in the Introduction, what two introductions to theory sources deal with the problems of teaching or learning theory?
(a) The Oval Portrait and The End of English.
(b) The Use of English and The English Review.
(c) Literary Studies in Action and Texts and Contexts.
(d) After Theory and The Critical Decade.

4. In Percy Bysshe Shelley's ________(1821) saw poetry as essentially engaged in what a group of twentieth-century Russian critics later called "defamiliarization."
(a) A Defence of Poetry.
(b) Queen Mab.
(c) Cenci.
(d) The Necessity of Atheism.

5. What was another name for the semic code found within the chapter titled Structuralism?
(a) Connotative code.
(b) Universals.
(c) Tel Quel group.
(d) Syntax.

Short Answer Questions

1. What language does the narrator describe as being a Romance language that takes most of its words directly from Latin, and lacks the reassuring Anglo-Saxon layer of vocabulary?

2. Which of F.R. Leavis's teachings was essentially a syllabus, manageable within a year-long undergraduate course?

3. What term does the narrator explain was a popular term in deconstructive criticism and literally means an impasse?

4. Whom does Peter Barry credit for being the first person and anthropologist to use structuralism in their work?

5. In the chapter titled Structuralism, the narrator explains that ________ applied the structuralism method to the general field of modern culture.

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