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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Post-Structuralism.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The German philosopher Edmund Husserl argued that objects can be regarded as things ______ by consciousness.
(a) Understood.
(b) Evaluated.
(c) Realized.
(d) Intended.

2. Who wrote "What is Literature" on literary reception and was published in 1948?
(a) Wolfgang Iser.
(b) Roland Barthes.
(c) Stanley Fish.
(d) Jean Paul Sartre.

3. According to the Russian formalist Osip Brik, Pushkin's "Eugene Onegin" would have been written if Pushkin had what?
(a) Not lived.
(b) Been uneducated.
(c) Married early.
(d) Died young.

4. According to Eagleton, "the meaning of a sign is a matter of what the sign is _____."
(a) Signifying.
(b) Doing.
(c) Not.
(d) For.

5. What proposes a "severe problem" for Husserl's theory?
(a) Individuality.
(b) Truth.
(c) Consciousness.
(d) Language.

Short Answer Questions

1. What year did France's student movement strike against the authoritarianism of the educational institutions and in solidarity with the working-class?

2. What kind of analysis is phenomenology, according to Eagleton?

3. For E.D. Hirsch, the aim of "policing" an author's meaning is to what, according to Eagleton?

4. Eagleton argues that if literature includes much factual writing, it also excludes "quite a lot of" what?

5. According to Eagleton, "In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, the word ______seems to have been used about true and fictional events."

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