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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. 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) Voltaire.
(b) Matthew Arnold.
(c) William Shakespeare.
(d) Mark Twain.

2. 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) Matthew Arnold.
(b) Thomas Malory.
(c) Edwin Abbott.
(d) John Webster.

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

4. What term suggests a range of negative attributes, such as "non-Marxist" and "non-feminist," and "non-theoretical"?
(a) Dialogism.
(b) Absurdism.
(c) Modernism.
(d) Humanism.

5. In the chapter titled Structuralism, the narrator explains that ________ applied the structuralism method to the general field of modern culture.
(a) Isaac Newton.
(b) Roland Barthes.
(c) Edgar Allan Poe.
(d) Friedrich Nietzsche.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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.

2. 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?

3. Who was credited as being a key figure in the development of modern approaches to language study in the chapter titled Structuralism?

4. Who does the narrator say was the founder of a method of studying English which is still the norm today?

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

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