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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, what "staggering fact" could not be put right by a theoretical technique?
(a) There was no time in history where women and men were antagonists.
(b) There was no time in history where half of the human race fought for equality.
(c) That there was no time in history where half of the human race was not considered inferior.
(d) That there was no time in history where women were not considered superior.

2. What year did France's student movement strike against the authoritarianism of the educational institutions and in solidarity with the working-class?
(a) 1988.
(b) 1968.
(c) 1958.
(d) 1978.

3. 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 he is no longer present in the world but in some other present in the future.
(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 language is only a tool, not something he is made of.

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

5. Eagleton provides the analogy of finding a "scrap of writing from a long-vanished civilization" to make what point about deciphering its meaning?
(a) That we would be able to see that poetry didn't exist by looking at its language.
(b) That we would not know whether it was a piece of poetry or ordinary language.
(c) That we would be able to learn that it was a piece of poetry by looking at the language.
(d) That we would be able to tell that it was a piece of poetry regardless of access to its language.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Eagleton, the Russian formalist shifted their attention to the "material reality" of what?

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

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

4. What genre of writing does Eagleton provide that is an example of writing that is NOT considered to be literature?

5. What novel by John Updike does Eagleton discuss from the position of reception theory?

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