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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Psychoanalytic criticism.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The crucial essay "The Death of the Author" written in 1968 was the "hinge" around which ________ turned from structuralism to post-structuralism.
(a) Joyce.
(b) Eddison.
(c) Barthes.
(d) Johnson.

2. 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'"?
(a) Trustee from the Toolroom.
(b) Of Grammatology.
(c) The Age of Innocence.
(d) The Critical Difference.

3. Author Peter Barry explains that all of the following are part of the three stages of the deconstructive process except for which one?
(a) Textual.
(b) Visual.
(c) Verbal.
(d) Linguistic.

4. What where the only two universities in England in the nineteenth century?
(a) Manchester and Winchester.
(b) Birmingham and Buckingham.
(c) Kingston and Liverpool.
(d) Oxford and Cambridge.

5. Who was appointed Professor at King's College, London in 1840?
(a) F.D. Maurice.
(b) Nick Hornby.
(c) Frank McCourt.
(d) J.R.R. Tolkien.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The narrator reveals that the modern period began with the ________.

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

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

5. According to the chapter titled Theory Before Theory--Liberal Humanism, structuralism and post-structuralism originated in what country?

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