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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 did the Romantic artist reflect her or his work in its detachment from history itself?
(a) Because she or he was seen as a producer of commodities who sold their goods for high pay.
(b) Because she or he was seen as a consumer of commodities who bought their goods for low pay.
(c) Because she or he was seen as a major commodity who existed within society.
(d) Because she or he was seen as a minor commodity who existed on the margins of society.

2. What is the name of the Yale theorist who believed that all language is metaphorical?
(a) Paul de Man.
(b) Julia Kristeva.
(c) Northrop Frye.
(d) Michel Foucault.

3. What year did France's student movement strike against the authoritarianism of the educational institutions and in solidarity with the working-class?
(a) 1988.
(b) 1958.
(c) 1968.
(d) 1978.

4. Who wrote "What is Literature" on literary reception and was published in 1948?
(a) Roland Barthes.
(b) Stanley Fish.
(c) Jean Paul Sartre.
(d) Wolfgang Iser.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How far has the "theoretical revolution" spread according to Eagleton?

2. For the Romantics, why was their vision of a just society was inverted into a nostalgia for an old and "organic" England?

3. What are Northrop Frye's four narrative categories at the root of all literature?

4. According to the Russian critic Roman Jakobson, literature represents "organized ______committed on ordinary _______."

5. 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"?

(see the answer key)

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