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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Psychoanalytic criticism.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The chapter titled Theory Before Theory--Liberal Humanism states that the conventional reading of the origins of the subject of English is that this kind of thinking begins with who?
(a) Matthew Arnold.
(b) Edwin Abbott.
(c) John Webster.
(d) Thomas Malory.

2. ________ is defined as a discipline which has always tended to emphasize the difficulty of achieving secure knowledge about things.
(a) Criminology.
(b) Philosophy.
(c) Psychology.
(d) Sociology.

3. I.A. Richards pioneered the technique called ________ which was also the title of his book in 1929.
(a) Practical Criticism.
(b) Allegorical Interpretation.
(c) Sociological Criticism.
(d) Reception Theory.

4. Who was appointed Professor at King's College, London in 1840?
(a) J.R.R. Tolkien.
(b) F.D. Maurice.
(c) Frank McCourt.
(d) Nick Hornby.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Author Peter Barry explains that all of the following are part of the three stages of the deconstructive process except for which one?

4. 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.

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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