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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does the narrator say was the founder of a method of studying English which is still the norm today?
(a) T.S. Eliot.
(b) I.A. Richards.
(c) Samuel Langhorne Clemens.
(d) Ralph Waldo Emerson.

2. Author Peter Barry suggests that the reader uses a useful form of intensive reading known as ________.
(a) NH2P.
(b) NACL2.
(c) H2OO.
(d) SQ3R.

3. What does Peter Barry say is the topic of the book Beginning Theory?
(a) Historical theory.
(b) Literary theory.
(c) Modern theory.
(d) English studies.

4. According to the chapter "New Historicism and Cultural Materialism," the notion of the state as all-powerful and all-seeing stems from the post-structuralist cultural historian ________.
(a) Anthony Burgess.
(b) Michel Foucault.
(c) Sigmund Freud.
(d) Edwin A. Abbott.

5. All of the following religious believers were not allowed to attend university in England in the nineteenth century except which one?
(a) Jewish.
(b) Atheist.
(c) Anglican.
(d) Catholic.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was appointed Professor at King's College, London in 1840?

2. Peter Barry affirms that Friedrich Engels was a German ________.

3. 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?

4. In the chapter titled Structuralism, Saussure used the terms ________ and ________ to signify language as a system or structure on the one hand, and any given utterance in that language on the other.

5. Who presented I.A. Richard with the manuscript of the book which was published in 1930 with the title Seven Types of Ambiguity?

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