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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. Why should politics engage with questions of sexual ideology, according to Eagleton?
(a) Because sexism and gender roles are deeply integrated in human experience.
(b) Because sexism and gender roles do not exist in human experience.
(c) Because sexism and gender roles should persist in human experience.
(d) Because sexism and gender roles are not deeply integrated in human experience.

2. Who wrote "What is Literature" on literary reception and was published in 1948?
(a) Wolfgang Iser.
(b) Roland Barthes.
(c) Jean Paul Sartre.
(d) Stanley Fish.

3. What literary movement, according to Eagleton, "brought structuralist and post-structuralist criticism to birth in the first place"?
(a) Modernism.
(b) Romanticism.
(c) Surrealism.
(d) Post-modernism.

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

5. What three sequential stages does Eagleton point out in the development of modern literary theory?
(a) The preoccupation with the critic, the exclusive concern with the author, and a shift toward the text.
(b) The preoccupation with the text, the exclusive concern with the reader, and a shift toward the author.
(c) The preoccupation with the reader, the exclusive concern with the text, and a shift toward the critic.
(d) The preoccupation with the author, the exclusive concern with the text, and a shift toward the reader.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Roland Barthes, what kind of sign draws attention to its own arbitrariness?

2. According to Eagleton, literature is definable "not according to whether it is fictional or "imaginative," because it uses language in ____ways."

3. The Russian formalists rejected what kind of doctrines that had influenced literary criticism?

4. The transition from structuralism to post-structuralism is partly in response to what movement?

5. What is the name of the Yale theorist who believed that all language is metaphorical?

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