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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. Roland Barthes "double" sign is the "grandchild" of what kind of language of the Formalist and Czech structuralists?
(a) Temporal.
(b) Unconscious.
(c) Estranged.
(d) Religious.

2. According to Eagleton, why is it an illusion to think that he can be present to us in what he says and writes?
(a) Because language is only a tool, not something he is made of.
(b) Because the language he uses is not a tool but something he is made of and therefore always divided.
(c) Because he is a concrete entity but language is not.
(d) Because he is no longer present in the world but in some other present in the future.

3. According to the Russian critic Roman Jakobson, literature represents "organized ______committed on ordinary _______."
(a) Violence; speech.
(b) Religion; writing.
(c) Violence; people.
(d) Protest; speech.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the German word for how reality is not objective, but experienced and organized by an individual subject?

3. What is a belief in "ultimate word, presence, essence, truth, or reality"?

4. According to Eagleton, "the meaning of a sign is a matter of what the sign is _____."

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

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