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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, Reception Theory.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is "imaginative" literature or literature that is not necessarily true?
(a) Fiction.
(b) Biography.
(c) Nonfiction.
(d) Memoir.

2. According to Eagleton, when did the Russian formalists emerge?
(a) Before WWII.
(b) Before the Bolshevik Revolution.
(c) After WWI.
(d) During the Russian Revolution.

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

4. Who developed hermeneutics?
(a) Roland Barthes.
(b) Hans-Georg Gadamer.
(c) E.D. Hirsch.
(d) Stanley Fish.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What person is NOT included in the ranks of Russian formalists?

2. What example from the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries does Eagleton provide that was not considered purely factual?

3. What kind of language does Eagleton say people think of literature as?

4. According to Eagleton, what does his book try to demonstrate about a body of literary theory?

5. How do linguists describe the effect of language where "the texture, rhythm and resonance of words are in excess of their abstractable meaning."

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