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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, "properly understood, literary theory is shaped by a ______impulse rather than an _______one."
(a) Popular; unpopular.
(b) Cultivated; uncultivated.
(c) Democratic; elitist.
(d) Different; indifferent.

2. What are the three points Eagleton notes about the method of structuralism?
(a) It is evaluative not analytic; it refuses obvious meaning of the text; and the narrative content is its meaning.
(b) It is analytic not evaluative; it refuses obvious meaning of the text; and the content of the narrative is its structure.
(c) It is rational not idealistic; it accepts the obvious meaning of the text; and the content of the narrative is its structure.
(d) It is idealistic not rational; it doesn't understand the obvious meaning of the text; and the narrative content is its meaning.

3. During the 1960s, what kind of students began to enter higher education that broke down assumptions about literary studies?
(a) Students from supposedly "cultivated" backgrounds.
(b) Students from supposedly "third-world" countries.
(c) Students from supposedly "first-world" countries.
(d) Students from supposedly "uncultivated" backgrounds.

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

5. What commonality does structuralism and phenomenology share, according to Eagleton?
(a) They both immerse themselves in the material world in order to become conscious of it.
(b) They both shut out the material world in order to revert to pre-consciousness.
(c) They both shut out the material world in order to understand our consciousness of it.
(d) They both immerse themselves in the material world in order to understand the subconscious.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Eagleton, the approaches outlined in his book have implications where?

2. Eagleton argues that the criteria for what counted as literature in the eighteenth-century was what?

3. 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"?

4. What novel by John Updike does Eagleton discuss from the position of reception theory?

5. According to Eagleton, the subject in phenomenology was the source of all what?

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