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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. In the chapter titled Structuralism, Saussure used the terms ________ and ________ to signify language as a system or structure on the one hand, and any given utterance in that language on the other.
(a) Humanism / icon.
(b) Logocentrism / margin.
(c) Langue / parole.
(d) Paradigm / paradigmatic.

2. What does the narrator say the reader will have the most difficulty as the result of what?
(a) The way theory is told.
(b) The way theory is written.
(c) The way theory is taught.
(d) The way theory was created.

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

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

5. Author Peter Barry explains that all of the following are part of the three stages of the deconstructive process except for which one?
(a) Linguistic.
(b) Visual.
(c) Textual.
(d) Verbal.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator states that the study of English literature was seen as a kind of substitute for ________.

2. What was the term used in the Introduction that is defined as the science of signs?

3. According to the narrator in the Introduction, what two introductions to theory sources deal with the problems of teaching or learning theory?

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

5. The narrator explains in the Introduction that the emphasis on practice means that this is what form of book?

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