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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. What "twin impacts" does Eagleton cite in the mid-Victorian period that was particularly worrisome to the ruling class?
(a) Religious ideology and social statis.
(b) Religious ideology and social change.
(c) Scientific discovery and religious ideology.
(d) Scientific discovery and social change.

2. According to Eagleton, structuralism maintains that "individual units of any system have meaning only by virtue of" what?
(a) Their status in the world.
(b) Their relations to one another.
(c) Their connection to religion.
(d) Their meaning for the critic.

3. 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 religion."
(b) The failure of government."
(c) The failure of religion.
(d) The success of government.

4. The English philosopher J. L. Austin saw language as what?
(a) Penultimate.
(b) Pejorative.
(c) Performative.
(d) Progressive.

5. What is the name of the American hermeneuticist E.D. Hirsch Jr.'s famous 1967 book?
(a) "Being and Time."
(b) "Validity in Interpretation."
(c) "Truth and Fact."
(d) "Meaning or Method."

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the example Eagleton provides of a metalanguage, where one sign-system denotes another sign-system?

2. Who was Husserl's most famous pupil who broke with his system of thought?

3. According to Eagleton, who would an ideal reader be for a structuralist?

4. According to Eagleton, why did the Russian formalists NOT see a literary work as a vehicle for ideas, reflection of reality, or transcendental truth?

5. According to Eagleton, structuralism is a ________of inquiry whereas semiotics is a ______ of study.

(see the answer key)

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