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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. The German philosopher Edmund Husserl argued that objects can be regarded as things ______ by consciousness.
(a) Evaluated.
(b) Realized.
(c) Intended.
(d) Understood.

2. What are Northrop Frye's three recurrent patterns of symbolism in literature?
(a) Analogical, demonic, tragic.
(b) Apocalyptic, demonic, analogical.
(c) Comic, apocalyptic, romantic.
(d) Tragic, comic, romantic.

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

4. What is the name of the pioneering essay the Russian formalist wrote that is the "beginnings of the transformation which has taken over literary theory in this century"?
(a) Art as Device.
(b) Theory as Practise.
(c) Film as Thought.
(d) Literature as Image.

5. According to Eagleton, if structuralism examined the "product" of literature, but left out what?
(a) The immaterial conditions that produced literature.
(b) The immaterial conditions inherent in the product.
(c) The material conditions that produced literature.
(d) The material conditions that destroyed literature.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Eagleton, what happens when literary theory becomes "turgidly unreadable"?

2. According to Eagleton, the French structural anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss did pioneering work on what?

3. According to Eagleton, the Russian formalist shifted their attention to the "material reality" of what?

4. According to Eagleton, as the first industrialist capitalist nation, England becomes what kind of state?

5. What person is NOT included in the ranks of Russian formalists?

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