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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. According to Eagleton, why is E.D. Hirsch able to maintain his view that literary meaning is absolute and resistant to historical change?
(a) Because meaning is viewed as pre-historic.
(b) Because meaning is viewed as pre-arranged.
(c) Because meaning is viewed as pre-linguistic.
(d) Because meaning is viewed as pre-modern.

2. According to Eagleton, what kind of age do we live in, where "meaning, like everything else, is expected to be instantly consumable"?
(a) Traditional.
(b) Modern.
(c) Postmodern.
(d) Esoteric.

3. For Eagleton, Gadamer's theory only holds if one makes what "enormous assumption"?
(a) That there is a single, mainstream tradition.
(b) That there are multiple modernities.
(c) That there are multiple traditions.
(d) That there is a single, mainstream modernity.

4. What date does Eagleton settle on as the "beginnings of the transformation which has taken over literary theory in this century"?
(a) 1957.
(b) 1937.
(c) 1917.
(d) 1977.

5. Who was Husserl's most famous pupil who broke with his system of thought?
(a) Walter Benjamin.
(b) Hannah Arendt.
(c) Ayn Rand.
(d) Martin Heidegger.

Short Answer Questions

1. What person is NOT included in the ranks of Russian formalists?

2. For Eagleton, how did the romantics usher a "forestalling of reasoned critical enquiry"?

3. What is the name of the American hermeneuticist E.D. Hirsch Jr.'s famous 1967 book?

4. What is the difference between metaphor and metonymy?

5. What "twin impacts" does Eagleton cite in the mid-Victorian period that was particularly worrisome to the ruling class?

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