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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. What is the name of the author whose story "Sarrasine" Roland Barthes examines in "S/Z"?
(a) Nabokov.
(b) Balzac.
(c) Tolstoy.
(d) Eliot.

2. What genre of writing does Eagleton provide that is an example of writing that is NOT considered to be literature?
(a) Science fiction.
(b) Romance.
(c) Young Adult.
(d) Comics.

3. Why is the example Eagleton gives of the sign in the London Underground system that "dogs must be carried on the escalator" a case of estrangement?
(a) Because the directive is unambigious and therefore inherently meaningful.
(b) Because the statement is a directive where people who do not follow are estranged from society.
(c) Because of the ambiguities inherent in the statement, which raises questions about its meaning.
(d) Because the language is prosaic and straightforward.

4. According to Eagleton, "the meaning of a sign is a matter of what the sign is _____."
(a) Not.
(b) For.
(c) Signifying.
(d) Doing.

5. According to Eagleton, "in the terminology of reception theory, the reader _________ the literary work, which is in itself no more than a chain of organized black marks on a page."
(a) Terrorizes.
(b) Rationalizes.
(c) Sanitizes.
(d) Concretizes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote "What is Literature" on literary reception and was published in 1948?

2. What is the name of the critic from the Constance school of reception aesthetics and the author of "The Act of Reading" who Eagleton discusses at length?

3. According to Eagleton, the Western philosophical tradition has "consistently vilified" what?

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

5. Eagleton argues that for Stanley Fish, what a text "does" to us is a matter of what we do to what?

(see the answer key)

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