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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. 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.

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

3. Who presented I.A. Richard with the manuscript of the book which was published in 1930 with the title Seven Types of Ambiguity?
(a) George Zebrowski.
(b) William Empson.
(c) Kurt Vonnegut.
(d) Wilfred Owen.

4. Peter Barry explains that ________'s most significant thinking was contained in the essays "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time" and "The Study of Poetry."
(a) William Shakespeare.
(b) Voltaire.
(c) Matthew Arnold.
(d) Mark Twain.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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. 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.

4. Who was the first critic to develop a "reader-centered" approach to literature?

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

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