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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) Dawn song.
(b) Morning love.
(c) Breaking dawn.
(d) Morning glory.

2. In the chapter titled Structuralism, the narrator explains that ________ applied the structuralism method to the general field of modern culture.
(a) Edgar Allan Poe.
(b) Isaac Newton.
(c) Friedrich Nietzsche.
(d) Roland Barthes.

3. Which of F.R. Leavis's teachings was essentially a syllabus, manageable within a year-long undergraduate course?
(a) Great Explorations.
(b) Great Tradition.
(c) Great Expectations.
(d) Great American Literature.

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

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

Short Answer 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?

2. The narrator suggests that liberal humanists believe in ________ as something fixed and constant which great literature expresses.

3. Peter Barry explains that ________'s most significant thinking was contained in the essays "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time" and "The Study of Poetry."

4. The narrator states that the study of English literature was seen as a kind of substitute for ________.

5. According to the narrator in the chapter "Psychoanalytic Criticism," who did Sigmund Freud link the situation of Hamlet in the play to?

Short Essay Questions

1. Briefly explain what post-structuralist critics do.

2. According to the "Introduction," what does the saying that "after the moment of theory comes the 'hour' of theory" mean?

3. What is the purpose of displacement and condensation?

4. In the first half of the twentieth century, who, according to Barry, were the critical names in British literary theory? Who were at Cambridge University in the 1920s and 1930s?

5. Explain F.D. Maurice's opinions of literature as detailed in the chapter "Theory Before Theory--Liberal Humanism."

6. Explain what author Peter Barry means when he says the frame of mind he would recommend his readers is threefold.

7. Explain what Peter Barry means when he informs the reader "that it is much better to read intensely in theory than to read widely".

8. Do liberal humanists use the term "human nature"? Explain.

9. What are the three stages of the deconstructive process? Explain.

10. Discuss what higher education was like in England until the first quarter of the nineteenth century, according to the chapter titled "Theory Before Theory--Liberal Humanism."

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