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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. What does the narrator say the reader will have the most difficulty as the result of what?
(a) The way theory is written.
(b) The way theory was created.
(c) The way theory is taught.
(d) The way theory is told.

2. The narrator states that the study of English literature was seen as a kind of substitute for ________.
(a) Social studies.
(b) History.
(c) Science.
(d) Religion.

3. ________ is defined as the meanings of words according to Saussure.
(a) Hermeneutics.
(b) Canon.
(c) Relational.
(d) Episteme.

4. The Introduction states that ________, like novelists, are dauntingly plentiful.
(a) Romanticists.
(b) Theorists.
(c) Poets.
(d) Journalists.

5. What does Peter Barry say was the earliest work of theory written by Aristotle?
(a) Metaphysics.
(b) Generation of Animals.
(c) Poetics.
(d) Politics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who presented I.A. Richard with the manuscript of the book which was published in 1930 with the title Seven Types of Ambiguity?

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

3. Who was appointed Professor at King's College, London in 1840?

4. Which of F.R. Leavis's teachings was essentially a syllabus, manageable within a year-long undergraduate course?

5. 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.

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