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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to the chapter titled Post-Structuralism and Deconstruction, structuralism derives ultimately from ________.
(a) Formalism.
(b) Hermeneutics.
(c) Linguistics.
(d) Mimesis.

3. According to the narrator in the Introduction, the ________ probably saw the high-water mark of literary theory.
(a) 1990s.
(b) 1980s.
(c) 1970s.
(d) 1960s.

4. 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) Oscar Wilde.
(c) Edward Freeman.
(d) Lewis Carroll.

5. ________ was probably the most influential figure in twentieth-century British criticism according to author Peter Barry.
(a) Douglas Adams.
(b) F.R. Leavis.
(c) Edward Jablonski.
(d) Patrick Tilley.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what decade did "postmodernism" become current according to the author?

2. What where the only two universities in England in the nineteenth century?

3. The narrator explains that post-structuralism emerged in France in the late ________.

4. What was the name of the American literature lecturer mentioned in the Introduction who died in January of 1995?

5. According to the chapter titled Structuralism, what is another term for "alba," the poetic form dating from the twelfth century in which lovers lament the approach of daybreak?

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