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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, "the tactic of _________criticism ... is to show how texts come to embarrass their own ruling systems of logic."
(a) Psychoanalytic.
(b) Deconstructive.
(c) Feminist.
(d) Post-structuralist.

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

3. According to Eagleton, the women's movement is not just about women having equal status and power as men, it is what?
(a) The questioning of all status and power.
(b) The abdication of sex altogether in relations of status and power.
(c) The rejection of men's status and power.
(d) The acceptance of sexual difference in relations of status and power.

4. Both F.R. Leavis and Edmund Husserl seek to grasp the thing in itself, or the ______for Husserl and ______for Leavis.
(a) Image; eidos.
(b) Eidos; life.
(c) Idea; essence.
(d) Idea; life.

5. The transition from structuralism to post-structuralism is partly in response to what movement?
(a) Christian movement.
(b) Marxist's movement.
(c) Women's movement.
(d) Student movement.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Husserl's most famous pupil who broke with his system of thought?

2. The Russian formalists rejected what kind of doctrines that had influenced literary criticism?

3. According to Eagleton, the Russian formalist shifted their attention to the "material reality" of what?

4. What does Jacques Derrida label any thought system which depends on an unassailable foundation?

5. According to Eagleton, Gibbon and the authors of Genesis share what in common?

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