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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Theory before theory - liberal humanism.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator states that the study of English literature was seen as a kind of substitute for ________.
(a) History.
(b) Science.
(c) Religion.
(d) Social studies.

2. What was the name of the American literature lecturer mentioned in the Introduction who died in January of 1995?
(a) Samuel Jackson.
(b) Eric Mottram.
(c) Charles Devine.
(d) Edward Hardy.

3. In Percy Bysshe Shelley's ________(1821) saw poetry as essentially engaged in what a group of twentieth-century Russian critics later called "defamiliarization."
(a) Queen Mab.
(b) The Necessity of Atheism.
(c) A Defence of Poetry.
(d) Cenci.

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. Peter Barry explains that ________'s most significant thinking was contained in the essays "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time" and "The Study of Poetry."
(a) Voltaire.
(b) William Shakespeare.
(c) Matthew Arnold.
(d) Mark Twain.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. What does Peter Barry say was the earliest work of theory written by Aristotle?

4. According to the chapter titled Theory Before Theory--Liberal Humanism, structuralism and post-structuralism originated in what country?

5. 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 ________.

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