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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following works of T.S. Eliot was a collage of juxtaposed, incomplete stories, or fragments of stories according to the chapter titled "Postmodernism"?
(a) Prufrock and Other Observations.
(b) The Waste Land.
(c) Essays Ancient and Modern.
(d) The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism.

2. What term suggests a range of negative attributes, such as "non-Marxist" and "non-feminist," and "non-theoretical"?
(a) Humanism.
(b) Dialogism.
(c) Absurdism.
(d) Modernism.

3. What language does the narrator describe as being a Romance language that takes most of its words directly from Latin, and lacks the reassuring Anglo-Saxon layer of vocabulary?
(a) Spanish.
(b) French.
(c) German.
(d) English.

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

5. The narrator explains that post-structuralism emerged in France in the late ________.
(a) 1990s.
(b) 1960s.
(c) 1930s.
(d) 1970s.

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

7. Author Peter Barry informs the reader that the feminist literary criticism of today was the direct product of the "women's movement" of the ________.
(a) 1960s.
(b) 1980s.
(c) 1910s.
(d) 1930s.

8. ________ is defined as a discipline which has always tended to emphasize the difficulty of achieving secure knowledge about things.
(a) Criminology.
(b) Psychology.
(c) Philosophy.
(d) Sociology.

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

10. The thesis that the language is "masculine" was developed by ________ in the early 1980s in her book "Man Made Language," which also argues that language is not a neutral medium.
(a) Laurell K. Hamilton.
(b) Iris Murdoch.
(c) Dale Spender.
(d) Evelyn Waugh.

11. According to the chapter titled Post-Structuralism and Deconstruction, structuralism derives ultimately from ________.
(a) Linguistics.
(b) Mimesis.
(c) Hermeneutics.
(d) Formalism.

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

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

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

15. According to the chapter titled Structuralism, what is another term for "alba," the poetic form dating from the twelfth century in which lovers lament the approach of daybreak?
(a) Dawn song.
(b) Breaking dawn.
(c) Morning love.
(d) Morning glory.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the term used in the Introduction that is defined as the science of signs?

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

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

4. What was the name of the American literature lecturer mentioned in the Introduction who died in January of 1995?

5. The notion of the ________, posited by Levi-Strauss, denoting the minimal units of narrative "sense," is formed on the analogy of the morpheme, which, in linguistics, is the ________ unit of grammatical sense.

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