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

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

3. What was the term used in the Introduction that is defined as the science of signs?
(a) Phenomenology.
(b) Semiotics.
(c) Mimesis.
(d) Logocentrism.

4. The narrator suggests that liberal humanists believe in ________ as something fixed and constant which great literature expresses.
(a) Idealism.
(b) Horizon of expectation.
(c) Human nature.
(d) Diegesis.

5. According to the narrator in the Introduction, the term "liberal humanism" became current in what decade?
(a) 1920s.
(b) 1970s.
(c) 1930s.
(d) 1910s.

Short Answer Questions

1. All of the following religious believers were not allowed to attend university in England in the nineteenth century except which one?

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

3. Which of F.R. Leavis's teachings was essentially a syllabus, manageable within a year-long undergraduate course?

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

5. The Introduction states that another name for traditional literary criticism is ________.

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