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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) Binary oppositions.
(d) Decentered universe.
2. The narrator states that the study of English literature was seen as a kind of substitute for ________.
(a) Social studies.
(b) History.
(c) Religion.
(d) Science.
3. According to Peter Barry in the chapter titled "Post-Structuralism and Deconstruction," post-structuralist critics seek to show that the text is characterized by ________ rather than unity.
(a) Indeterminacy.
(b) Disunity.
(c) Genre.
(d) Discourse.
4. What where the only two universities in England in the nineteenth century?
(a) Oxford and Cambridge.
(b) Birmingham and Buckingham.
(c) Manchester and Winchester.
(d) Kingston and Liverpool.
5. 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) Mimesis.
(b) Hermeneutics.
(c) Formalism.
(d) Linguistics.
Short Answer Questions
1. David Lodge, Professor of English at Birmingham, combined the ideas of structuralism with more traditional approaches in which one of his books?
2. Author Peter Barry suggests that the reader uses a useful form of intensive reading known as ________.
3. According to the narrator in the Introduction, the ________ probably saw the high-water mark of literary theory.
4. In the chapter titled Post-Structuralism and Deconstruction, whose famous remark on philosophy was, "There are no facts, only interpretations"?
5. In the Introduction, what university did author Peter Barry say he attended?
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