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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 narrator in the Introduction, the term "liberal humanism" became current in what decade?
(a) 1930s.
(b) 1970s.
(c) 1910s.
(d) 1920s.

2. Which of the following best fits the definition of a discipline which has always been inherently confident about the possibility of establishing objective knowledge?
(a) Formalism.
(b) Linguistics.
(c) Hermeneutics.
(d) Mimesis.

3. Author Peter Barry explains that all of the following are part of the three stages of the deconstructive process except for which one?
(a) Textual.
(b) Verbal.
(c) Linguistic.
(d) Visual.

4. Who presented I.A. Richard with the manuscript of the book which was published in 1930 with the title Seven Types of Ambiguity?
(a) George Zebrowski.
(b) Kurt Vonnegut.
(c) Wilfred Owen.
(d) William Empson.

5. All of the following religious believers were not allowed to attend university in England in the nineteenth century except which one?
(a) Jewish.
(b) Catholic.
(c) Anglican.
(d) Atheist.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. David Lodge, Professor of English at Birmingham, combined the ideas of structuralism with more traditional approaches in which one of his books?

3. The narrator informs the reader that in the early 1980s, two new forms of political/historical criticism emerged, new historicism from ________ and cultural materialism from ________.

4. 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.

5. What example did Saussure use to explain what he meant by saying that there are no intrinsic, fixed meanings in language?

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