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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. How are "writable" texts different from ones that can be read?
(a) Writable texts encourage the reader/critic to become a consumer of the text.
(b) Writable texts encourage the author/writer to become the reader/critic of the text.
(c) Writable texts encourage the author/writer to reject the reader/critic of the text.
(d) Writable texts encourage the reader/critic to become a producer of the text.

2. During the last decades of the eighteenth-century, the word prosaic begins to acquire what a kind of connotation?
(a) A positive connotation.
(b) A negative connotation.
(c) A unfamiliar connotation.
(d) A familiar connotation.

3. According to Eagleton, the Western philosophical tradition has "consistently vilified" what?
(a) Myth.
(b) Man.
(c) Speech.
(d) Writing.

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

5. How do linguists describe the effect of language where "the texture, rhythm and resonance of words are in excess of their abstractable meaning."
(a) "A disproportion between two signifiers."
(b) "A disproportion between one signifier for every other signified."
(c) "A disproportion between two signifieds."
(d) "A disproportion between signifiers and signifieds."

Short Answer Questions

1. The transition from structuralism to post-structuralism is partly in response to what movement?

2. According to Eagleton, "if one were asked to provide a single explanation for the growth of English in the later nineteenth century" what would it be?

3. According to Eagleton, as the first industrialist capitalist nation, England becomes what kind of state?

4. What commonality does structuralism and phenomenology share, according to Eagleton?

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

(see the answer key)

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