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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) Feminist.
(c) Deconstructive.
(d) Post-structuralist.

2. According to Roland Barthes, what kind of sign draws attention to its own arbitrariness?
(a) A productive sign.
(b) An unproductive sign.
(c) A healthy sign.
(d) An unhealthy sign.

3. According to Eagleton, the sentence "this is awfully squiggly handwriting" from Knut Hamsun's "Hunger" tells him its literary because of what reason?
(a) The facts.
(b) The content.
(c) The context.
(d) The ideas.

4. According to Eagleton, "in the terminology of reception theory, the reader _________ the literary work, which is in itself no more than a chain of organized black marks on a page."
(a) Terrorizes.
(b) Rationalizes.
(c) Sanitizes.
(d) Concretizes.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Eagleton, why is it an illusion to think that he can be present to us in what he says and writes?

2. According to Eagleton, why did intellectuals preoccupy themselves with language in the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries?

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

4. Both F.R. Leavis and Edmund Husserl seek to grasp the thing in itself, or the ______for Husserl and ______for Leavis.

5. Roland Barthes "double" sign is the "grandchild" of what kind of language of the Formalist and Czech structuralists?

(see the answer key)

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