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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. For the Romantics, why was their vision of a just society was inverted into a nostalgia for an old and "organic" England?
(a) Because they refused to give up their privilege as writers in industrial society.
(b) Because they lacked the means of transforming industrial capitalism.
(c) Because they were revolutionaries who were imprisoned in the old system.
(d) Because their vision of a just society was a corrupted version of industrial capitalism.

2. Eagleton argues that for Stanley Fish, what a text "does" to us is a matter of what we do to what?
(a) To the critic.
(b) To the text.
(c) To the author.
(d) To the reader.

3. Both F.R. Leavis and Edmund Husserl seek to grasp the thing in itself, or the ______for Husserl and ______for Leavis.
(a) Idea; essence.
(b) Eidos; life.
(c) Image; eidos.
(d) Idea; life.

4. What is the German word for how reality is not objective, but experienced and organized by an individual subject?
(a) Vorgeschichte.
(b) Lebenswelt.
(c) Wendepunkt.
(d) Bildungsroman.

5. According to Eagleton, Gibbon and the authors of Genesis share what in common?
(a) Both wrote historical truth that is read as fiction.
(b) Both wrote fiction that is read as fact by some and fiction by others.
(c) Both wrote fiction that is read as historical fact.
(d) They both thought they were writing historical truth, but are read as fact by some and fiction by others.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Eagleton argues that the readership his book has attracted dispels the notion that literary theory is what?

3. According to Eagleton, Stanley Fish's model excludes the possibility that there is a ______ of interpretations?

4. According to Eagleton, what idea is "truly elitist" in literary studies?

5. According to Eagleton, what is ironic about those who complain of the difficulty of literary theory?

(see the answer key)

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