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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. Who said the following quote found in the chapter titled Theory Before Theory--Liberal Humanism: "We are told that the study of literature 'cultivates the taste, educates the sympathies and enlarges the mind'"?
(a) Elie Wiesel.
(b) Lewis Carroll.
(c) Edward Freeman.
(d) Oscar Wilde.
2. 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?
(a) French.
(b) English.
(c) German.
(d) Spanish.
3. In the chapter titled Structuralism, the narrator explains that ________ applied the structuralism method to the general field of modern culture.
(a) Edgar Allan Poe.
(b) Friedrich Nietzsche.
(c) Isaac Newton.
(d) Roland Barthes.
4. Who does the narrator say was the founder of a method of studying English which is still the norm today?
(a) I.A. Richards.
(b) Ralph Waldo Emerson.
(c) T.S. Eliot.
(d) Samuel Langhorne Clemens.
5. According to Peter Barry, where does post-structuralism ultimately derive from?
(a) Pyschology.
(b) Zoology.
(c) Physics.
(d) Philosophy.
Short Answer Questions
1. ________ was probably the most influential figure in twentieth-century British criticism according to author Peter Barry.
2. What was the term used in the Introduction that is defined as the science of signs?
3. Which of the following best fits the definition of a discipline which has always been inherently confident about the possibility of establishing objective knowledge?
4. What does Peter Barry say was the earliest work of theory written by Aristotle?
5. 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.
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