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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Stylistics.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From which of Babara Johnson's literary pieces can the following definition of deconstructive reading be found according to author Peter Barry: "Deconstruction is not synonymous with 'destruction.' It is in fact much closer to the original meaning of the word 'analysis,' which etymologically means 'to undo'"?
(a) The Critical Difference.
(b) The Age of Innocence.
(c) Trustee from the Toolroom.
(d) Of Grammatology.

2. The gist of "Style in Language," edited by ________, is to claim that linguistics offers a more objective way of studying literature, and the book tends to set up "a confrontation of camps" between literary and language studies.
(a) Chaucer.
(b) Sebeok.
(c) Fowler.
(d) Wiley.

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

4. According to Peter Barry in the chapter titled Structuralism, the novel "Middlemarch" is an example of a literary ________.
(a) Pardigm.
(b) Paradigmatic.
(c) Icon.
(d) Parole.

5. The narrator explains in the chapter "Psychoanalytic Criticism" that distrust of Freud has grown in recent years, partly as a result of his mainly negative views on ________.
(a) Americans.
(b) Men.
(c) Children.
(d) Women.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following terms is defined as the view that, in spite of the connections between culture and economics, art has a degree of independence from economic forces?

2. The narrator explains that post-structuralism emerged in France in the late ________.

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

4. The ancestry of post-colonial criticism can be traced to Frantz Fanon's ________, published in French in 1961, and voicing what might be called "cultural resistance" to France's African empire.

5. The chapter titled "Psychoanalytic Criticism" discusses the use by the unconscious of these linguistic means of self-expression is part of ________'s evidence for the claim that the unconscious is structured like a language.

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