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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 approaches outlined in his book have implications where?
(a) Well beyond language.
(b) Well beyond feeling.
(c) Well beyond literature.
(d) Well beyond politics.

2. According to Eagleton, Gibbon and the authors of Genesis share what in common?
(a) They both thought they were writing historical truth, but are read as fact by some and fiction by others.
(b) Both wrote historical truth that is read as fiction.
(c) Both wrote fiction that is read as fact by some and fiction by others.
(d) Both wrote fiction that is read as historical fact.

3. Eagleton argues that for Stanley Fish, what a text "does" to us is a matter of what we do to what?
(a) To the reader.
(b) To the text.
(c) To the author.
(d) To the critic.

4. From the viewpoint of Roland Barthes, Eagleton argues that "reading is less like a _______ than a _________."
(a) "Boudoir; laboratory."
(b) "Philosophy; laboratory."
(c) "Laboratory; boudoir."
(d) "Boudoir; system."

5. According to Eagleton, "if one were asked to provide a single explanation for the growth of English in the later nineteenth century" what would it be?
(a) The success of government.
(b) The failure of government."
(c) The success of religion."
(d) The failure of religion.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who developed hermeneutics?

2. According to Eagleton, what idea is "truly elitist" in literary studies?

3. According to Eagleton, "theory was a way of _______ literary works from the ________of civilised sensibility'"

4. According to Eagleton, the "very meaning of _______, ________ and _________ has undergone deep alteration."

5. Eagleton argues that the readership his book has attracted dispels the notion that literary theory is what?

(see the answer key)

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