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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. 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.

2. What are Northrop Frye's four narrative categories at the root of all literature?
(a) Comic, romantic, tragic, ironic.
(b) Comic, reality, idealism, tragic.
(c) Romantic, tragic, idealism, ironic.
(d) Fiction, fact, reality, idealism.

3. According to Eagleton, literature is definable "not according to whether it is fictional or "imaginative," because it uses language in ____ways."
(a) Pendantic.
(b) Profound.
(c) Pragmatic.
(d) Peculiar.

4. According to Eagleton, the Russian formalist shifted their attention to the "material reality" of what?
(a) The text.
(b) The facts.
(c) The critic.
(d) The fiction.

5. What person is NOT included in the ranks of Russian formalists?
(a) Boris Tomashevsky.
(b) Roman Jakobson.
(c) Heinrich Wolffin.
(d) Viktor Shklovsky.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Eagleton, "properly understood, literary theory is shaped by a ______impulse rather than an _______one."

2. According to Eagleton, who would an ideal reader be for a structuralist?

3. According to Eagleton, if structuralism examined the "product" of literature, but left out what?

4. What "twin impacts" does Eagleton cite in the mid-Victorian period that was particularly worrisome to the ruling class?

5. According to Eagleton, what is ironic about those who complain of the difficulty of literary theory?

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