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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Post-structuralism and deconstruction.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What where the only two universities in England in the nineteenth century?
(a) Kingston and Liverpool.
(b) Oxford and Cambridge.
(c) Birmingham and Buckingham.
(d) Manchester and Winchester.

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

4. Whom does Peter Barry credit for being the first person and anthropologist to use structuralism in their work?
(a) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(b) W.B. Yeats.
(c) Alfred Tennyson.
(d) Claude Levi-Strauss.

5. The Introduction states that another name for traditional literary criticism is ________.
(a) Liberal humanism.
(b) Modern humanism.
(c) Independant humanism.
(d) Conservative humanism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, and Shelley are authors of what form of writing, according to the chapter titled Theory Before Theory--Liberal Humanism?

2. According to the chapter titled Post-Structuralism and Deconstruction, structuralism derives ultimately from ________.

3. In the chapter titled Post-Structuralism and Deconstruction, whose famous remark on philosophy was, "There are no facts, only interpretations"?

4. According to Peter Barry in the chapter titled Structuralism, the novel "Middlemarch" is an example of a literary ________.

5. I.A. Richards pioneered the technique called ________ which was also the title of his book in 1929.

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