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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. Roland Barthes "double" sign is the "grandchild" of what kind of language of the Formalist and Czech structuralists?
(a) Religious.
(b) Temporal.
(c) Estranged.
(d) Unconscious.

2. The distinction between fact and fiction in defining literature is what?
(a) Questionable.
(b) Difficult.
(c) Important.
(d) Complicated.

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) Concretizes.
(b) Rationalizes.
(c) Terrorizes.
(d) Sanitizes.

4. According to Eagleton, what "staggering fact" could not be put right by a theoretical technique?
(a) That there was no time in history where women were not considered superior.
(b) That there was no time in history where half of the human race was not considered inferior.
(c) There was no time in history where half of the human race fought for equality.
(d) There was no time in history where women and men were antagonists.

5. What is the name Edmund Husserl gave to his philosophical method?
(a) New criticism.
(b) Reception theory.
(c) Phenomenology.
(d) Hermeneutics.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Eagleton, the "very meaning of _______, ________ and _________ has undergone deep alteration."

2. During the last decades of the eighteenth-century, the word prosaic begins to acquire what a kind of connotation?

3. Eagleton argues that a literary work in Romantic society becomes what rather than rational and mechanical?

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

5. According to Eagleton, the women's movement is not just about women having equal status and power as men, it is what?

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