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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. What term suggests a range of negative attributes, such as "non-Marxist" and "non-feminist," and "non-theoretical"?
(a) Humanism.
(b) Dialogism.
(c) Modernism.
(d) Absurdism.

2. 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) Britain / Russia.
(b) France / Germany.
(c) The United States / Britain.
(d) Russia / the United States.

3. What does Peter Barry say was the earliest work of theory written by Aristotle?
(a) Politics.
(b) Poetics.
(c) Generation of Animals.
(d) Metaphysics.

4. Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, and Shelley are authors of what form of writing, according to the chapter titled Theory Before Theory--Liberal Humanism?
(a) Romantic poets.
(b) Science-fiction writers.
(c) Investigative journalists.
(d) Mystery fiction writers.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Percy Bysshe Shelley's ________(1821) saw poetry as essentially engaged in what a group of twentieth-century Russian critics later called "defamiliarization."

3. Who presented I.A. Richard with the manuscript of the book which was published in 1930 with the title Seven Types of Ambiguity?

4. In the Introduction, what university did author Peter Barry say he attended?

5. The narrator suggests that liberal humanists believe in ________ as something fixed and constant which great literature expresses.

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