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

2. 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.
(a) Archimedes.
(b) Sir Philip Sidney.
(c) William Blake.
(d) Geoffrey Chaucer.

3. What term is used in the Introduction means not politically radical, and hence generally evasive and non-committal on political issues?
(a) Communists.
(b) Liberal.
(c) Conservative.
(d) Socialists.

4. What does Peter Barry say is the topic of the book Beginning Theory?
(a) Literary theory.
(b) Modern theory.
(c) English studies.
(d) Historical theory.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to the narrator in the Introduction, the ________ probably saw the high-water mark of literary theory.

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

4. Which of the following term best can be defined as one in which we cannot know where we are, since all the concepts which previously defined the center, and hence also the margins, have been "deconstructed," or undermined?

5. The notion of the ________, posited by Levi-Strauss, denoting the minimal units of narrative "sense," is formed on the analogy of the morpheme, which, in linguistics, is the ________ unit of grammatical sense.

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