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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 narrator suggests that liberal humanists believe in ________ as something fixed and constant which great literature expresses.
(a) Horizon of expectation.
(b) Idealism.
(c) Human nature.
(d) Diegesis.

2. Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, and Shelley are authors of what form of writing, according to the chapter titled Theory Before Theory--Liberal Humanism?
(a) Romantic poets.
(b) Mystery fiction writers.
(c) Investigative journalists.
(d) Science-fiction writers.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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'"?

2. The narrator explains in the Introduction that the emphasis on practice means that this is what form of book?

3. The crucial essay "The Death of the Author" written in 1968 was the "hinge" around which ________ turned from structuralism to post-structuralism.

4. David Lodge, Professor of English at Birmingham, combined the ideas of structuralism with more traditional approaches in which one of his books?

5. Author Peter Barry explains that all of the following are part of the three stages of the deconstructive process except for which one?

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