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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. 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?
(a) Because of the ambiguities inherent in the statement, which raises questions about its meaning.
(b) Because the language is prosaic and straightforward.
(c) Because the directive is unambigious and therefore inherently meaningful.
(d) Because the statement is a directive where people who do not follow are estranged from society.

2. What novel by John Updike does Eagleton discuss from the position of reception theory?
(a) Terrorist.
(b) Couples.
(c) Rabbit Run.
(d) Of the Farm.

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

4. What person is NOT included in the ranks of Russian formalists?
(a) Boris Tomashevsky.
(b) Heinrich Wolffin.
(c) Viktor Shklovsky.
(d) Roman Jakobson.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the American hermeneuticist E.D. Hirsch Jr.'s famous 1967 book?

2. According to Eagleton, Stanley Fish's model excludes the possibility that there is a ______ of interpretations?

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

4. According to Roland Barthes, what kind of sign draws attention to its own arbitrariness?

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

(see the answer key)

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