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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) Binary oppositions.
(b) Decentered universe.
(c) Absurdism.
(d) Allegorical Interpretation.

2. 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 ________.
(a) France / Germany.
(b) Russia / the United States.
(c) Britain / Russia.
(d) The United States / Britain.

3. 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.

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

5. The narrator explains that post-structuralism emerged in France in the late ________.
(a) 1930s.
(b) 1970s.
(c) 1960s.
(d) 1990s.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to the chapter titled Theory Before Theory--Liberal Humanism, structuralism and post-structuralism originated in what country?

3. From which of Babara Johnson's literary pieces can the following definition of deconstructive reading be found according to author Peter Barry: "Deconstruction is not synonymous with 'destruction.' It is in fact much closer to the original meaning of the word 'analysis,' which etymologically means 'to undo'"?

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

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

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