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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Structuralism and Semiotics.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What "twin impacts" does Eagleton cite in the mid-Victorian period that was particularly worrisome to the ruling class?
(a) Scientific discovery and social change.
(b) Religious ideology and social change.
(c) Religious ideology and social statis.
(d) Scientific discovery and religious ideology.
2. What word does Eagleton discuss that is both a descriptive term to mean "literally untrue" as well as an evaluative term to mean "visionary" or "inventive"?
(a) Imaginative.
(b) Unimaginative.
(c) Unrealistic.
(d) Idealistic.
3. How did the Romantic artist reflect her or his work in its detachment from history itself?
(a) Because she or he was seen as a minor commodity who existed on the margins of society.
(b) Because she or he was seen as a producer of commodities who sold their goods for high pay.
(c) Because she or he was seen as a major commodity who existed within society.
(d) Because she or he was seen as a consumer of commodities who bought their goods for low pay.
4. What proposes a "severe problem" for Husserl's theory?
(a) Language.
(b) Truth.
(c) Consciousness.
(d) Individuality.
5. What novel by John Updike does Eagleton discuss from the position of reception theory?
(a) Couples.
(b) Rabbit Run.
(c) Terrorist.
(d) Of the Farm.
Short Answer Questions
1. According to Eagleton, as the first industrialist capitalist nation, England becomes what kind of state?
2. What three sequential stages does Eagleton point out in the development of modern literary theory?
3. What is the name of the American hermeneuticist E.D. Hirsch Jr.'s famous 1967 book?
4. During the last decades of the eighteenth-century, the word prosaic begins to acquire what a kind of connotation?
5. For the literary theorist, Mikhail Bakhtin, "linguistic community" was what kind of society?
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