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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 subject in phenomenology was the source of all what?
(a) Oppression.
(b) Life.
(c) Meaning.
(d) Violence.

2. What is a belief in "ultimate word, presence, essence, truth, or reality"?
(a) Logocentric.
(b) Technocentric.
(c) Phallocentric.
(d) Egocentric.

3. What proposes a "severe problem" for Husserl's theory?
(a) Truth.
(b) Consciousness.
(c) Individuality.
(d) Language.

4. The distinction between fact and fiction in defining literature is what?
(a) Important.
(b) Difficult.
(c) Complicated.
(d) Questionable.

5. According to Eagleton, why is E.D. Hirsch able to maintain his view that literary meaning is absolute and resistant to historical change?
(a) Because meaning is viewed as pre-modern.
(b) Because meaning is viewed as pre-linguistic.
(c) Because meaning is viewed as pre-historic.
(d) Because meaning is viewed as pre-arranged.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What example from the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries does Eagleton provide that was not considered purely factual?

3. According to Eagleton, when did the Russian formalists emerge?

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

5. According to Eagleton, formalism is the application of what to the study of literature?

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