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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, formalism is the application of what to the study of literature?
(a) Psychology.
(b) Sociology.
(c) Economics.
(d) Linguistics.

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

3. For Eagleton, E.D. Hirsch attempts to "offer a form of knowledge" that is what?
(a) Timeless.
(b) Temporary.
(c) Telling.
(d) Titular.

4. 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 language is only a tool, not something he is made of.
(b) Because he is a concrete entity but language is not.
(c) Because the language he uses is not a tool but something he is made of and therefore always divided.
(d) Because he is no longer present in the world but in some other present in the future.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. For E.D. Hirsch, the aim of "policing" an author's meaning is to what, according to Eagleton?

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

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

4. According to the Russian critic Roman Jakobson, literature represents "organized ______committed on ordinary _______."

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

(see the answer key)

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