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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) Aggressive, violent.
(b) Uprooted, defensive.
(c) Educated, grounded.
(d) Apathetic, placid.

2. In the eighteenth-century, what was the whole body of writing in society considered, including philosophy, letters, history, poems, and essays?
(a) Theory.
(b) Religion.
(c) Literature.
(d) Canon.

3. What period did our own definition of literature begin to emerge, according to Eagleton?
(a) Enlightenment period.
(b) Romantic period.
(c) Victorian period.
(d) Modernist period.

4. According to Eagleton, "In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, the word ______seems to have been used about true and fictional events."
(a) News.
(b) Memoir.
(c) Novel.
(d) Theory.

5. What is the name of the Russian formalist who published the pioneering essay that is the "beginnings of the transformation which has taken over literary theory in this century"?
(a) Viktor Shklovsky.
(b) Fyodor Dostoevsky.
(c) Leo Tolstoy.
(d) Alexander Pushkin.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the Russian critic Roman Jakobson, literature represents "organized ______committed on ordinary _______."

2. Why is the example Eagleton gives of the sign in the London Underground system that "dogs must be carried on the escalator" a case of estrangement?

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

4. What is the name Edmund Husserl gave to his philosophical method?

5. What text did Tzvetan Todorov attempt a grammatical analysis of so that the characters were nouns, their attributes adjectives, and actions verbs?

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