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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, Reception Theory.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the critic from the Constance school of reception aesthetics and the author of "The Act of Reading" who Eagleton discusses at length?
(a) Roland Barthes.
(b) Jean Paul Sartre.
(c) Wolfgang Iser.
(d) Roman Ingarden.

2. What role does reception theory examine?
(a) The reader's role.
(b) The teacher's role.
(c) The author's role.
(d) The critic's role.

3. According to Eagleton, William Empson "insists on treating poetry as a species of ______language."
(a) Secular.
(b) Religious.
(c) Ordinary.
(d) Spectacular.

4. According to Eagleton, "Literary Theory: An Introduction" has managed to reach readers beyond __________.
(a) Students.
(b) Historians.
(c) Academia.
(d) Literature.

5. According to Eagleton, literature is definable "not according to whether it is fictional or "imaginative," because it uses language in ____ways."
(a) Pragmatic.
(b) Pendantic.
(c) Peculiar.
(d) Profound.

Short Answer Questions

1. What novel by John Updike does Eagleton discuss from the position of reception theory?

2. Who wrote "What is Literature" on literary reception and was published in 1948?

3. For Eagleton, E.D. Hirsch attempts to "offer a form of knowledge" that is what?

4. According to the Russian critic Roman Jakobson, literature represents "organized ______committed on ordinary _______."

5. How do linguists describe the effect of language where "the texture, rhythm and resonance of words are in excess of their abstractable meaning."

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