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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Post-Structuralism.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the three points Eagleton notes about the method of structuralism?
(a) It is rational not idealistic; it accepts the obvious meaning of the text; and the content of the narrative is its structure.
(b) It is evaluative not analytic; it refuses obvious meaning of the text; and the narrative content is its meaning.
(c) It is analytic not evaluative; it refuses obvious meaning of the text; and the content of the narrative is its structure.
(d) It is idealistic not rational; it doesn't understand the obvious meaning of the text; and the narrative content is its meaning.

2. What is the name of the economist Eagleton discusses in his preface?
(a) I. Fischer.
(b) Adam Smith.
(c) J. M. Keynes.
(d) Gordon Tuck.

3. What are Northrop Frye's three recurrent patterns of symbolism in literature?
(a) Tragic, comic, romantic.
(b) Analogical, demonic, tragic.
(c) Apocalyptic, demonic, analogical.
(d) Comic, apocalyptic, romantic.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the Russian formalist who published the pioneering essay that is the "beginnings of the transformation which has taken over literary theory in this century"?

2. What period did our own definition of literature begin to emerge, according to Eagleton?

3. For Eagleton, opposition between "historical" and "artistic" truth does NOT apply to what?

4. How many decades, according to Eagleton, has there been a "striking proliferation of literary theory" since the publication of the Russian formalist's pioneering essay?

5. From a structuralist perspective, why could literature could no longer claim to be a unique discourse?

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