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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. Author Peter Barry suggests that the reader uses a useful form of intensive reading known as ________.
(a) NACL2.
(b) NH2P.
(c) SQ3R.
(d) H2OO.

2. 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?
(a) Morning glory.
(b) Morning love.
(c) Breaking dawn.
(d) Dawn song.

3. 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) Isaac Newton.
(d) Edgar Allan Poe.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the chapter titled Post-Structuralism and Deconstruction, whose famous remark on philosophy was, "There are no facts, only interpretations"?

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

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

4. Who was the first critic to develop a "reader-centered" approach to literature?

5. ________ is defined as a discipline which has always tended to emphasize the difficulty of achieving secure knowledge about things.

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