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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. Eagleton's goal in "Literary Theory: An Introduction" is to provide a comprehensive account of literary theory for whom?
(a) Those with little knowledge of literary theory.
(b) Those who have some knowledge of literary theory.
(c) Those who have specialised knowledge of literary theory.
(d) Those with extensive knowledge of literary theory.

2. According to Eagleton, the sentence "this is awfully squiggly handwriting" from Knut Hamsun's "Hunger" tells him its literary because of what reason?
(a) The facts.
(b) The ideas.
(c) The content.
(d) The context.

3. According to Eagleton, the "very meaning of _______, ________ and _________ has undergone deep alteration."
(a) Power; authority; freedom.
(b) Film; viewing; education.
(c) Literature; reading; criticism.
(d) Art; theory; practise.

4. During the 1960s, what kind of students began to enter higher education that broke down assumptions about literary studies?
(a) Students from supposedly "third-world" countries.
(b) Students from supposedly "first-world" countries.
(c) Students from supposedly "uncultivated" backgrounds.
(d) Students from supposedly "cultivated" backgrounds.

5. For E.D. Hirsch, the aim of "policing" an author's meaning is to what, according to Eagleton?
(a) Control her/his "private property."
(b) Protect her/his "private property."
(c) Sell her/his "private property."
(d) Alter her/his "private property."

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Eagleton writes that "New Criticism was the ideology of an ________, _______intelligentsia who reinvented in literature what they could not locate in reality."

3. Eagleton provides the analogy of finding a "scrap of writing from a long-vanished civilization" to make what point about deciphering its meaning?

4. The German philosopher Edmund Husserl argued that objects can be regarded as things ______ by consciousness.

5. According to Eagleton, the subject in phenomenology was the source of all what?

(see the answer key)

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