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

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

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 "uncultivated" backgrounds.
(d) Students from supposedly "first-world" countries.

4. According to Eagleton, "in the terminology of reception theory, the reader _________ the literary work, which is in itself no more than a chain of organized black marks on a page."
(a) Sanitizes.
(b) Concretizes.
(c) Rationalizes.
(d) Terrorizes.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Eagleton, structuralism has proved that there is nothing _____ about codes.

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

3. The distinction between fact and fiction in defining literature is what?

4. According to Eagleton, William Empson "insists on treating poetry as a species of ______language."

5. What genre of writing does Eagleton provide that is an example of writing that is NOT considered to be literature?

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