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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 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) Imaginative.
(b) Unrealistic.
(c) Idealistic.
(d) Unimaginative.

2. For the economist Eagleton discusses, "those economists who dislike theory or claimed to get along better without it" were what?
(a) Didn't understand the importance of theory.
(b) Had no knowledge of any theory.
(c) In the grip of the most current theory.
(d) In the grip of an older theory.

3. According to Eagleton, "in the terminology of reception theory, the reader _________ the literary work, which is in itself no more than a chain of organized black marks on a page."
(a) Sanitizes.
(b) Concretizes.
(c) Terrorizes.
(d) Rationalizes.

4. The English philosopher J. L. Austin saw language as what?
(a) Performative.
(b) Penultimate.
(c) Pejorative.
(d) Progressive.

5. Eagleton argues that if literature includes much factual writing, it also excludes "quite a lot of" what?
(a) Autobiography.
(b) Fiction.
(c) Biography.
(d) Nonfiction.

Short Answer Questions

1. Both F.R. Leavis and Edmund Husserl seek to grasp the thing in itself, or the ______for Husserl and ______for Leavis.

2. According to Eagleton, the Western philosophical tradition has "consistently vilified" what?

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. What date does Eagleton settle on as the "beginnings of the transformation which has taken over literary theory in this century"?

5. What is the name of the American hermeneuticist E.D. Hirsch Jr.'s famous 1967 book?

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