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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. The German philosopher Edmund Husserl argued that objects can be regarded as things ______ by consciousness.
(a) Evaluated.
(b) Intended.
(c) Realized.
(d) Understood.

2. What is the name of the author whose story "Sarrasine" Roland Barthes examines in "S/Z"?
(a) Nabokov.
(b) Eliot.
(c) Balzac.
(d) Tolstoy.

3. What is the German word for how reality is not objective, but experienced and organized by an individual subject?
(a) Bildungsroman.
(b) Lebenswelt.
(c) Vorgeschichte.
(d) Wendepunkt.

4. According to Eagleton, there are forms of post-structuralism that represent what kind of withdrawal from history?
(a) Pragmatic.
(b) Hedonist.
(c) Intellectual.
(d) Calm.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is NOT a material reality in the oppression of women?

2. According to Eagleton, why is Hans-Georg Gadamer not concerned about bringing our cultural preconceptions to a literary work?

3. For Eagleton, opposition between "historical" and "artistic" truth does NOT apply to what?

4. For Eagleton, Gadamer's theory only holds if one makes what "enormous assumption"?

5. Why is the example Eagleton gives of the sign in the London Underground system that "dogs must be carried on the escalator" a case of estrangement?

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