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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. According to the narrator in the Introduction, what two introductions to theory sources deal with the problems of teaching or learning theory?
(a) The Oval Portrait and The End of English.
(b) The Use of English and The English Review.
(c) After Theory and The Critical Decade.
(d) Literary Studies in Action and Texts and Contexts.

2. ________ was founded on the notion of close reading, according to the narrator.
(a) Social studies.
(b) Sociology.
(c) Humanities.
(d) English studies.

3. 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?
(a) John Webster.
(b) Edwin Abbott.
(c) Thomas Malory.
(d) Matthew Arnold.

4. 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) Sir Philip Sidney.
(b) Geoffrey Chaucer.
(c) Archimedes.
(d) William Blake.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What term is used in the Introduction means not politically radical, and hence generally evasive and non-committal on political issues?

4. The narrator explains in the Introduction that the emphasis on practice means that this is what form of book?

5. I.A. Richards pioneered the technique called ________ which was also the title of his book in 1929.

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