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

2. According to the narrator in the Introduction, what two introductions to theory sources deal with the problems of teaching or learning theory?
(a) The Use of English and The English Review.
(b) After Theory and The Critical Decade.
(c) Literary Studies in Action and Texts and Contexts.
(d) The Oval Portrait and The End of English.

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

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

5. What was the name of the American literature lecturer mentioned in the Introduction who died in January of 1995?
(a) Edward Hardy.
(b) Samuel Jackson.
(c) Eric Mottram.
(d) Charles Devine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What example did Saussure use to explain what he meant by saying that there are no intrinsic, fixed meanings in language?

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

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

4. According to the narrator in the Introduction, the term "liberal humanism" became current in what decade?

5. In the chapter titled Structuralism, the narrator explains that ________ applied the structuralism method to the general field of modern culture.

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