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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 does the narrator say was the founder of a method of studying English which is still the norm today?
(a) I.A. Richards.
(b) Samuel Langhorne Clemens.
(c) Ralph Waldo Emerson.
(d) T.S. Eliot.

2. What does Peter Barry say was the earliest work of theory written by Aristotle?
(a) Politics.
(b) Generation of Animals.
(c) Metaphysics.
(d) Poetics.

3. In the Introduction, what university did author Peter Barry say he attended?
(a) Yale University.
(b) North Carolina State University.
(c) Harvard University.
(d) London University.

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

5. Which of the following best fits the definition of a discipline which has always been inherently confident about the possibility of establishing objective knowledge?
(a) Mimesis.
(b) Formalism.
(c) Linguistics.
(d) Hermeneutics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the early nineteenth-century American writer who received considerable attention from both structuralists and post-structuralists?

2. Who was appointed Professor at King's College, London in 1840?

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

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

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

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