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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Post-structuralism and deconstruction.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What term does the narrator explain was a popular term in deconstructive criticism and literally means an impasse?
(a) Parole.
(b) Langue.
(c) Aporia.
(d) Imagism.

2. Whom does Peter Barry credit for being the first person and anthropologist to use structuralism in their work?
(a) Alfred Tennyson.
(b) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(c) W.B. Yeats.
(d) Claude Levi-Strauss.

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) Jewish.
(c) Anglican.
(d) Atheist.

4. What was the name of the American literature lecturer mentioned in the Introduction who died in January of 1995?
(a) Eric Mottram.
(b) Charles Devine.
(c) Samuel Jackson.
(d) Edward Hardy.

5. 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) After Theory and The Critical Decade.
(c) Literary Studies in Action and Texts and Contexts.
(d) The Use of English and The English Review.

Short Answer Questions

1. What language does the narrator describe as being a Romance language that takes most of its words directly from Latin, and lacks the reassuring Anglo-Saxon layer of vocabulary?

2. What is the name of the early nineteenth-century American writer who received considerable attention from both structuralists and post-structuralists?

3. The narrator suggests that liberal humanists believe in ________ as something fixed and constant which great literature expresses.

4. In the chapter titled Structuralism, Saussure used the terms ________ and ________ to signify language as a system or structure on the one hand, and any given utterance in that language on the other.

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

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