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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. Eagleton writes that "New Criticism was the ideology of an ________, _______intelligentsia who reinvented in literature what they could not locate in reality."
(a) Apathetic, placid.
(b) Aggressive, violent.
(c) Educated, grounded.
(d) Uprooted, defensive.

2. What proposes a "severe problem" for Husserl's theory?
(a) Consciousness.
(b) Truth.
(c) Individuality.
(d) Language.

3. Who is the key figure in the Victorian period Eagleton cites as "preternaturally aware of the needs of his social class"?
(a) William Morris.
(b) Matthew Arnold.
(c) George Gordon.
(d) Percy Shelley.

4. According to Eagleton, William Empson "insists on treating poetry as a species of ______language."
(a) Religious.
(b) Spectacular.
(c) Secular.
(d) Ordinary.

5. For the economist Eagleton discusses, "those economists who dislike theory or claimed to get along better without it" were what?
(a) Had no knowledge of any theory.
(b) Didn't understand the importance of theory.
(c) In the grip of an older theory.
(d) In the grip of the most current theory.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Eagleton, what does his book try to demonstrate about a body of literary theory?

3. According to Eagleton, structuralism maintains that "individual units of any system have meaning only by virtue of" what?

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

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

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