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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. 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?
(a) Edwin Abbott.
(b) Matthew Arnold.
(c) John Webster.
(d) Thomas Malory.

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

3. Who presented I.A. Richard with the manuscript of the book which was published in 1930 with the title Seven Types of Ambiguity?
(a) Kurt Vonnegut.
(b) George Zebrowski.
(c) William Empson.
(d) Wilfred Owen.

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

5. What is the name of the early nineteenth-century American writer who received considerable attention from both structuralists and post-structuralists?
(a) Mark Twain.
(b) Edgar Allan Poe.
(c) Victor Hugo.
(d) Washington Irving.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Peter Barry say was the earliest work of theory written by Aristotle?

2. In Percy Bysshe Shelley's ________(1821) saw poetry as essentially engaged in what a group of twentieth-century Russian critics later called "defamiliarization."

3. ________ is defined as the meanings of words according to Saussure.

4. From which of Babara Johnson's literary pieces can the following definition of deconstructive reading be found according to author Peter Barry: "Deconstruction is not synonymous with 'destruction.' It is in fact much closer to the original meaning of the word 'analysis,' which etymologically means 'to undo'"?

5. What does the narrator say the reader will have the most difficulty as the result of what?

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