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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Theory before theory - liberal humanism.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) The Oval Portrait and The End of English.
(c) After Theory and The Critical Decade.
(d) Literary Studies in Action and Texts and Contexts.

2. 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.

3. ________ was probably the most influential figure in twentieth-century British criticism according to author Peter Barry.
(a) Edward Jablonski.
(b) Douglas Adams.
(c) F.R. Leavis.
(d) Patrick Tilley.

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

5. According to the narrator in the Introduction, the term "liberal humanism" became current in what decade?
(a) 1910s.
(b) 1920s.
(c) 1970s.
(d) 1930s.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The narrator informs the reader that in the early 1980s, two new forms of political/historical criticism emerged, new historicism from ________ and cultural materialism from ________.

3. In the Introduction, what university did author Peter Barry say he attended?

4. All of the following religious believers were not allowed to attend university in England in the nineteenth century except which one?

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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