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

2. What is the example Eagleton provides of a metalanguage, where one sign-system denotes another sign-system?
(a) The relation between philosophy and literature.
(b) The relation between philosophy and religion.
(c) The relation between literary criticism and religion.
(d) The relation between literary criticism and literature.

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

4. What three sequential stages does Eagleton point out in the development of modern literary theory?
(a) The preoccupation with the reader, the exclusive concern with the text, and a shift toward the critic.
(b) The preoccupation with the text, the exclusive concern with the reader, and a shift toward the author.
(c) The preoccupation with the critic, the exclusive concern with the author, and a shift toward the text.
(d) The preoccupation with the author, the exclusive concern with the text, and a shift toward the reader.

5. What is the name of the critic from the Constance school of reception aesthetics and the author of "The Act of Reading" who Eagleton discusses at length?
(a) Roman Ingarden.
(b) Jean Paul Sartre.
(c) Wolfgang Iser.
(d) Roland Barthes.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Eagleton, why is Hans-Georg Gadamer not concerned about bringing our cultural preconceptions to a literary work?

2. What person is NOT included in the ranks of Russian formalists?

3. According to Eagleton, Stanley Fish's model excludes the possibility that there is a ______ of interpretations?

4. The English philosopher J. L. Austin saw language as what?

5. According to Eagleton, what becomes the "panacea for all problems" as part of the romantics' aesthetic theory at the turn of the eighteenth century?

(see the answer key)

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