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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, literature is definable "not according to whether it is fictional or "imaginative," because it uses language in ____ways."
(a) Pragmatic.
(b) Pendantic.
(c) Peculiar.
(d) Profound.

2. What year did France's student movement strike against the authoritarianism of the educational institutions and in solidarity with the working-class?
(a) 1968.
(b) 1958.
(c) 1988.
(d) 1978.

3. 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) Sanitizes.
(c) Concretizes.
(d) Rationalizes.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. For Roland Barthes, what kind of literature attempts to conceal the constructed nature of language?

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?

4. Who silenced the Russian formalists, according to Eagleton?

5. According to Eagleton, why is E.D. Hirsch able to maintain his view that literary meaning is absolute and resistant to historical change?

(see the answer key)

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