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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. In American deconstruction, why does literary criticism become an "ironic, uneasy business"?
(a) Because it lays bare the physicality of meaning.
(b) Because it lays bare the illusoriness of meaning.
(c) Because it lays bare the permanence of meaning.
(d) Because it lays bare the temporality of meaning.

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

3. What kind of analysis is phenomenology, according to Eagleton?
(a) Critical and discursive.
(b) Uncritical and discursive.
(c) Discursive and non-evaluative.
(d) Uncritical and non-evaluative.

4. For Eagleton, Gadamer's theory only holds if one makes what "enormous assumption"?
(a) That there are multiple traditions.
(b) That there is a single, mainstream tradition.
(c) That there is a single, mainstream modernity.
(d) That there are multiple modernities.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Both F.R. Leavis and Edmund Husserl seek to grasp the thing in itself, or the ______for Husserl and ______for Leavis.

2. What is NOT a material reality in the oppression of women?

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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