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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. How are "writable" texts different from ones that can be read?
(a) Writable texts encourage the author/writer to reject the reader/critic of the text.
(b) Writable texts encourage the reader/critic to become a consumer of the text.
(c) Writable texts encourage the author/writer to become the reader/critic of the text.
(d) Writable texts encourage the reader/critic to become a producer of the text.

2. According to Eagleton, when did the Russian formalists emerge?
(a) During the Russian Revolution.
(b) After WWI.
(c) Before the Bolshevik Revolution.
(d) Before WWII.

3. According to Eagleton, Stanley Fish's model excludes the possibility that there is a ______ of interpretations?
(a) Struggle.
(b) Rejection.
(c) Dominance.
(d) Acceptance.

4. According to Eagleton, why did the Russian formalists NOT see a literary work as a vehicle for ideas, reflection of reality, or transcendental truth?
(a) Because they saw language as potentially empowering the masses.
(b) Because they saw language as words and not objects or feelings.
(c) Because they saw language as a mode of speech for the wealthy.
(d) Because they saw language as obtuse, vague, and ephemeral.

5. What does Jacques Derrida label any thought system which depends on an unassailable foundation?
(a) Philosophical.
(b) Mythical.
(c) Teleological.
(d) Metaphysical.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the Russian formalist Osip Brik, Pushkin's "Eugene Onegin" would have been written if Pushkin had what?

2. How did post-structuralism respond to France's student movement's failed attempt to break state power?

3. What person is NOT included in the ranks of Russian formalists?

4. Who was Husserl's most famous pupil who broke with his system of thought?

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

(see the answer key)

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