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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. What genre of writing does Eagleton provide that is an example of writing that is NOT considered to be literature?
(a) Comics.
(b) Science fiction.
(c) Young Adult.
(d) Romance.

2. Eagleton argues that for Stanley Fish, what a text "does" to us is a matter of what we do to what?
(a) To the critic.
(b) To the text.
(c) To the reader.
(d) To the author.

3. According to Eagleton, when did the Russian formalists emerge?
(a) Before the Bolshevik Revolution.
(b) Before WWII.
(c) During the Russian Revolution.
(d) After WWI.

4. According to Eagleton, why is Hans-Georg Gadamer not concerned about bringing our cultural preconceptions to a literary work?
(a) Because unlike the literary work, they come from modernity.
(b) Because like the literary work, they come from tradition.
(c) Because unlike the literary work, the come from tradition.
(d) Because like the literary work, they come from modernity.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Eagleton, there are forms of post-structuralism that represent what kind of withdrawal from history?

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

3. Why should politics engage with questions of sexual ideology, according to Eagleton?

4. How are "writable" texts different from ones that can be read?

5. According to Eagleton, why did the women's movement reject the economic focus of classical Marxist thought?

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