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

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

3. 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.
(a) Rhetoric / moderate.
(b) Bliss / largest.
(c) mytheme / smallest.
(d) Semantics / largest.

4. According to the chapter titled Post-Structuralism and Deconstruction, structuralism derives ultimately from ________.
(a) Mimesis.
(b) Linguistics.
(c) Hermeneutics.
(d) Formalism.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. David Lodge, Professor of English at Birmingham, combined the ideas of structuralism with more traditional approaches in which one of his books?

5. Who was appointed Professor at King's College, London in 1840?

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