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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 the chapter titled Structuralism, what is another term for "alba," the poetic form dating from the twelfth century in which lovers lament the approach of daybreak?
(a) Breaking dawn.
(b) Dawn song.
(c) Morning love.
(d) Morning glory.

2. Who was the first critic to develop a "reader-centered" approach to literature?
(a) Plato.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Sigmund Freud.
(d) Sophocles.

3. The narrator informs the reader that in the early 1980s, two new forms of political/historical criticism emerged, new historicism from ________ and cultural materialism from ________.
(a) Russia / the United States.
(b) Britain / Russia.
(c) The United States / Britain.
(d) France / Germany.

4. Which of the following best fits the definition of a discipline which has always been inherently confident about the possibility of establishing objective knowledge?
(a) Formalism.
(b) Linguistics.
(c) Mimesis.
(d) Hermeneutics.

5. Which of F.R. Leavis's teachings was essentially a syllabus, manageable within a year-long undergraduate course?
(a) Great Expectations.
(b) Great American Literature.
(c) Great Tradition.
(d) Great Explorations.

Short Answer Questions

1. The crucial essay "The Death of the Author" written in 1968 was the "hinge" around which ________ turned from structuralism to post-structuralism.

2. The chapter titled Theory Before Theory--Liberal Humanism states that the conventional reading of the origins of the subject of English is that this kind of thinking begins with who?

3. What where the only two universities in England in the nineteenth century?

4. According to the narrator in the Introduction, the ________ probably saw the high-water mark of literary theory.

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

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