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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 Russian formalist shifted their attention to the "material reality" of what?
(a) The text.
(b) The fiction.
(c) The facts.
(d) The critic.

2. What role does reception theory examine?
(a) The teacher's role.
(b) The reader's role.
(c) The author's role.
(d) The critic's role.

3. How do linguists describe the effect of language where "the texture, rhythm and resonance of words are in excess of their abstractable meaning."
(a) "A disproportion between one signifier for every other signified."
(b) "A disproportion between two signifiers."
(c) "A disproportion between signifiers and signifieds."
(d) "A disproportion between two signifieds."

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

5. According to Eagleton, "In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, the word ______seems to have been used about true and fictional events."
(a) Theory.
(b) News.
(c) Novel.
(d) Memoir.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Viktor Shklovsky, what novel was "the most typical novel in world literature" because it impeded its own story-line so that it never gets off the ground?

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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