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

2. The narrator suggests that liberal humanists believe in ________ as something fixed and constant which great literature expresses.
(a) Diegesis.
(b) Human nature.
(c) Idealism.
(d) Horizon of expectation.

3. According to Peter Barry, where does post-structuralism ultimately derive from?
(a) Pyschology.
(b) Philosophy.
(c) Physics.
(d) Zoology.

4. Who does the narrator say was the founder of a method of studying English which is still the norm today?
(a) T.S. Eliot.
(b) I.A. Richards.
(c) Samuel Langhorne Clemens.
(d) Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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.
(a) mytheme / smallest.
(b) Semantics / largest.
(c) Rhetoric / moderate.
(d) Bliss / largest.

Short Answer Questions

1. ________ was probably the most influential figure in twentieth-century British criticism according to author Peter Barry.

2. What does Peter Barry say was the earliest work of theory written by Aristotle?

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

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

5. In the chapter titled Structuralism, the narrator explains that ________ applied the structuralism method to the general field of modern culture.

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