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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. For Eagleton, opposition between "historical" and "artistic" truth does NOT apply to what?
(a) Fairy-tales.
(b) Late Victorian novels.
(c) Early Icelandic sagas.
(d) Middle English.

2. According to Eagleton, what becomes the "panacea for all problems" as part of the romantics' aesthetic theory at the turn of the eighteenth century?
(a) The symbol.
(b) The image.
(c) The text.
(d) The word.

3. According to Eagleton, one of the gains of structuralism is that it represents a "remorseless _____of literature."
(a) Idealization.
(b) Mystification.
(c) Rationlization.
(d) Demystification.

4. Who silenced the Russian formalists, according to Eagleton?
(a) Stalinists.
(b) Socialists.
(c) Bolsheviks.
(d) Liberals.

5. Eagleton provides the analogy of finding a "scrap of writing from a long-vanished civilization" to make what point about deciphering its meaning?
(a) That we would be able to see that poetry didn't exist by looking at its language.
(b) That we would be able to learn that it was a piece of poetry by looking at the language.
(c) That we would be able to tell that it was a piece of poetry regardless of access to its language.
(d) That we would not know whether it was a piece of poetry or ordinary language.

Short Answer Questions

1. For the literary theorist, Mikhail Bakhtin, "linguistic community" was what kind of society?

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

3. According to Eagleton, if structuralism examined the "product" of literature, but left out what?

4. What text did Tzvetan Todorov attempt a grammatical analysis of so that the characters were nouns, their attributes adjectives, and actions verbs?

5. From a structuralist perspective, why could literature could no longer claim to be a unique discourse?

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