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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. I.A. Richards pioneered the technique called ________ which was also the title of his book in 1929.
(a) Reception Theory.
(b) Allegorical Interpretation.
(c) Practical Criticism.
(d) Sociological Criticism.

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

3. According to the narrator in the Introduction, the ________ probably saw the high-water mark of literary theory.
(a) 1990s.
(b) 1960s.
(c) 1970s.
(d) 1980s.

4. 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) After Theory and The Critical Decade.
(c) The Use of English and The English Review.
(d) Literary Studies in Action and Texts and Contexts.

5. What term is used in the Introduction means not politically radical, and hence generally evasive and non-committal on political issues?
(a) Conservative.
(b) Socialists.
(c) Communists.
(d) Liberal.

Short Answer Questions

1. ________ was probably the most influential figure in twentieth-century British criticism according to author Peter Barry.

2. ________ is defined as a discipline which has always tended to emphasize the difficulty of achieving secure knowledge about things.

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

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

5. What does the narrator say the reader will have the most difficulty as the result of what?

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