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

2. Who was appointed Professor at King's College, London in 1840?
(a) F.D. Maurice.
(b) Nick Hornby.
(c) J.R.R. Tolkien.
(d) Frank McCourt.

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

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

5. The narrator explains in the Introduction that the emphasis on practice means that this is what form of book?
(a) E-book.
(b) Missal.
(c) Work book.
(d) Manuscript.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the narrator say was the founder of a method of studying English which is still the norm today?

2. What term suggests a range of negative attributes, such as "non-Marxist" and "non-feminist," and "non-theoretical"?

3. Who said the following quote found in the chapter titled Theory Before Theory--Liberal Humanism: "We are told that the study of literature 'cultivates the taste, educates the sympathies and enlarges the mind'"?

4. Author Peter Barry suggests that the reader uses a useful form of intensive reading known as ________.

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

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