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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. According to Peter Barry, where does post-structuralism ultimately derive from?
(a) Pyschology.
(b) Physics.
(c) Philosophy.
(d) Zoology.

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

3. What was the term used in the Introduction that is defined as the science of signs?
(a) Semiotics.
(b) Logocentrism.
(c) Phenomenology.
(d) Mimesis.

4. ________ was probably the most influential figure in twentieth-century British criticism according to author Peter Barry.
(a) Edward Jablonski.
(b) Douglas Adams.
(c) Patrick Tilley.
(d) F.R. Leavis.

5. Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, and Shelley are authors of what form of writing, according to the chapter titled Theory Before Theory--Liberal Humanism?
(a) Science-fiction writers.
(b) Mystery fiction writers.
(c) Romantic poets.
(d) Investigative journalists.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following best fits the definition of a discipline which has always been inherently confident about the possibility of establishing objective knowledge?

3. According to the chapter titled Post-Structuralism and Deconstruction, structuralism derives ultimately from ________.

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

5. Author Peter Barry explains that all of the following are part of the three stages of the deconstructive process except for which one?

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