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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 year did Terry Eagleton's "Literary Theory: An Introduction" first appear?
(a) 1943.
(b) 1993.
(c) 1963.
(d) 1983.

2. What word does Eagleton discuss that is both a descriptive term to mean "literally untrue" as well as an evaluative term to mean "visionary" or "inventive"?
(a) Unrealistic.
(b) Imaginative.
(c) Idealistic.
(d) Unimaginative.

3. Eagleton argues that the criteria for what counted as literature in the eighteenth-century was what?
(a) Religious.
(b) Canonical.
(c) Practical.
(d) Ideological.

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

5. Who was Husserl's most famous pupil who broke with his system of thought?
(a) Walter Benjamin.
(b) Hannah Arendt.
(c) Ayn Rand.
(d) Martin Heidegger.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Eagleton, the formalists were not out to define literature but they were out to define what?

2. By the early 1930s, the study of English literature became what kind of pursuit?

3. What is the name of the critic from the Constance school of reception aesthetics and the author of "The Act of Reading" who Eagleton discusses at length?

4. The Russian formalists rejected what kind of doctrines that had influenced literary criticism?

5. According to Eagleton, "Literary Theory: An Introduction" has managed to reach readers beyond __________.

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