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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. Which of the following term best can be defined as one in which we cannot know where we are, since all the concepts which previously defined the center, and hence also the margins, have been "deconstructed," or undermined?
(a) Absurdism.
(b) Allegorical Interpretation.
(c) Decentered universe.
(d) Binary oppositions.

2. Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, and Shelley are authors of what form of writing, according to the chapter titled Theory Before Theory--Liberal Humanism?
(a) Romantic poets.
(b) Mystery fiction writers.
(c) Investigative journalists.
(d) Science-fiction writers.

3. Who said the following quote found in the chapter titled Theory Before Theory--Liberal Humanism: "We are told that the study of literature 'cultivates the taste, educates the sympathies and enlarges the mind'"?
(a) Elie Wiesel.
(b) Edward Freeman.
(c) Lewis Carroll.
(d) Oscar Wilde.

4. Who was credited as being a key figure in the development of modern approaches to language study in the chapter titled Structuralism?
(a) Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
(b) Thomas de Quincey.
(c) Ferdinand de Saussure.
(d) Saki.

5. According to Peter Barry in the chapter titled Structuralism, the novel "Middlemarch" is an example of a literary ________.
(a) Icon.
(b) Paradigmatic.
(c) Parole.
(d) Pardigm.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is the name of the early nineteenth-century American writer who received considerable attention from both structuralists and post-structuralists?

4. ________ was founded on the notion of close reading, according to the narrator.

5. In Percy Bysshe Shelley's ________(1821) saw poetry as essentially engaged in what a group of twentieth-century Russian critics later called "defamiliarization."

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