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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. According to Eagleton, the "very meaning of _______, ________ and _________ has undergone deep alteration."
(a) Power; authority; freedom.
(b) Art; theory; practise.
(c) Film; viewing; education.
(d) Literature; reading; criticism.

2. According to Eagleton, as the first industrialist capitalist nation, England becomes what kind of state?
(a) A free state.
(b) A police state.
(c) A wealthy state.
(d) A perfect state.

3. The distinction between fact and fiction in defining literature is what?
(a) Complicated.
(b) Difficult.
(c) Questionable.
(d) Important.

4. Eagleton argues that the criteria for what counted as literature in the eighteenth-century was what?
(a) Ideological.
(b) Practical.
(c) Religious.
(d) Canonical.

5. Eagleton argues that if literature includes much factual writing, it also excludes "quite a lot of" what?
(a) Autobiography.
(b) Biography.
(c) Nonfiction.
(d) Fiction.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the Romantic artist reflect her or his work in its detachment from history itself?

2. Who developed hermeneutics?

3. What are Northrop Frye's four narrative categories at the root of all literature?

4. The German philosopher Edmund Husserl argued that objects can be regarded as things ______ by consciousness.

5. How far has the "theoretical revolution" spread according to Eagleton?

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