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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 Yale theorist who believed that all language is metaphorical?
(a) Michel Foucault.
(b) Northrop Frye.
(c) Julia Kristeva.
(d) Paul de Man.

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

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

4. According to Eagleton, why did the women's movement reject the economic focus of classical Marxist thought?
(a) Because it succeeded in placing sexual ideology at the heart of its theory and practice.
(b) Because it failed to place sexual ideology at the heart of its theory and practice.
(c) Because it failed to place material conditions over sexual ideology at the heart of its theory and practice.
(d) Because it placed sexual ideology over the material conditions at the heart of its theory and practice.

5. According to Eagleton, the formalists were not out to define literature but they were out to define what?
(a) Literariness.
(b) Criticism.
(c) Inventiveness.
(d) Realism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is "imaginative" literature or literature that is not necessarily true?

2. According to Eagleton, when did the Russian formalists emerge?

3. According to Eagleton, formalism is the application of what to the study of literature?

4. According to Eagleton, why did intellectuals preoccupy themselves with language in the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries?

5. From the viewpoint of Roland Barthes, Eagleton argues that "reading is less like a _______ than a _________."

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