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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 Plato, "a state of language anterior to the Word" is called ________.
(a) Surrealism.
(b) Chora.
(c) Organic form.
(d) Semiotic.

2. 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.
(a) mytheme / smallest.
(b) Semantics / largest.
(c) Rhetoric / moderate.
(d) Bliss / largest.

3. What language does the narrator describe as being a Romance language that takes most of its words directly from Latin, and lacks the reassuring Anglo-Saxon layer of vocabulary?
(a) German.
(b) English.
(c) French.
(d) Spanish.

4. According to Peter Barry, where does post-structuralism ultimately derive from?
(a) Zoology.
(b) Philosophy.
(c) Physics.
(d) Pyschology.

5. The Introduction states that ________, like novelists, are dauntingly plentiful.
(a) Romanticists.
(b) Journalists.
(c) Poets.
(d) Theorists.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following works of T.S. Eliot was a collage of juxtaposed, incomplete stories, or fragments of stories according to the chapter titled "Postmodernism"?

2. Who was credited as being a key figure in the development of modern approaches to language study in the chapter titled Structuralism?

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

4. What is the name given to the movement that dominates the arts and culture of the first half of the twentieth century?

5. In Julia Kristeva's essay "The System and the Speaking Subject," the ________ aspect is associated with authority, order, fathers, repression, and control.

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the most basic difference between liberal humanist and structuralist reading?

2. What are the five (5) codes identified by Barthes in S/Z? Explain.

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

4. What is "ecriture feminine"?

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

6. In which way is post-structuralism more fundamental than structuralism?

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

8. How does Disneyland fit into the concept of hyperreality according to Baurdrillard?

9. 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?

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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