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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 explains that the first prestigious name in English writing about literature was that of ________, who wrote his "Apology for Poetry" in about 1580.
(a) Archimedes.
(b) Geoffrey Chaucer.
(c) William Blake.
(d) Sir Philip Sidney.

2. What does Peter Barry say is the topic of the book Beginning Theory?
(a) Modern theory.
(b) Historical theory.
(c) Literary theory.
(d) English studies.

3. All of the following religious believers were not allowed to attend university in England in the nineteenth century except which one?
(a) Catholic.
(b) Anglican.
(c) Jewish.
(d) Atheist.

4. The Introduction states that ________, like novelists, are dauntingly plentiful.
(a) Poets.
(b) Romanticists.
(c) Journalists.
(d) Theorists.

5. The Introduction states that another name for traditional literary criticism is ________.
(a) Independant humanism.
(b) Liberal humanism.
(c) Conservative humanism.
(d) Modern humanism.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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 ________.

2. The chapter titled Theory Before Theory--Liberal Humanism states that the conventional reading of the origins of the subject of English is that this kind of thinking begins with who?

3. What does the narrator say the reader will have the most difficulty as the result of what?

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

5. Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, and Shelley are authors of what form of writing, according to the chapter titled Theory Before Theory--Liberal Humanism?

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