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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. I.A. Richards pioneered the technique called ________ which was also the title of his book in 1929.
(a) Reception Theory.
(b) Allegorical Interpretation.
(c) Sociological Criticism.
(d) Practical Criticism.

2. What is the name of the early nineteenth-century American writer who received considerable attention from both structuralists and post-structuralists?
(a) Mark Twain.
(b) Edgar Allan Poe.
(c) Victor Hugo.
(d) Washington Irving.

3. According to Peter Barry in the chapter titled Structuralism, the novel "Middlemarch" is an example of a literary ________.
(a) Icon.
(b) Pardigm.
(c) Paradigmatic.
(d) Parole.

4. ________ is defined as the meanings of words according to Saussure.
(a) Episteme.
(b) Canon.
(c) Relational.
(d) Hermeneutics.

5. According to the chapter titled Theory Before Theory--Liberal Humanism, structuralism and post-structuralism originated in what country?
(a) France.
(b) United States.
(c) Britain.
(d) Russia.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the chapter titled Structuralism, what is another term for "alba," the poetic form dating from the twelfth century in which lovers lament the approach of daybreak?

2. The Introduction states that ________, like novelists, are dauntingly plentiful.

3. According to the narrator in the Introduction, the term "liberal humanism" became current in what decade?

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

5. What was the term used in the Introduction that is defined as the science of signs?

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