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

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

3. What term does the narrator explain was a popular term in deconstructive criticism and literally means an impasse?
(a) Imagism.
(b) Langue.
(c) Parole.
(d) Aporia.

4. The crucial essay "The Death of the Author" written in 1968 was the "hinge" around which ________ turned from structuralism to post-structuralism.
(a) Barthes.
(b) Joyce.
(c) Eddison.
(d) Johnson.

5. 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.
(a) Logocentrism / margin.
(b) Langue / parole.
(c) Paradigm / paradigmatic.
(d) Humanism / icon.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The Introduction states that another name for traditional literary criticism is ________.

3. Whom does Peter Barry credit for being the first person and anthropologist to use structuralism in their work?

4. What does Peter Barry say is the topic of the book Beginning Theory?

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

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