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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. During the Romantic period, how is literature more than "idle escapism"?
(a) It is the celebration of totalarian values enforced in English society.
(b) It is the rejection of creative values celebrated in English society.
(c) It is the affirmation of creative values expunged from English society.
(d) It is the acceptance of totalarian values rejected in English society.

2. According to Roland Barthes, what kind of sign draws attention to its own arbitrariness?
(a) A healthy sign.
(b) An unhealthy sign.
(c) A productive sign.
(d) An unproductive sign.

3. For the Romantics, why was their vision of a just society was inverted into a nostalgia for an old and "organic" England?
(a) Because they lacked the means of transforming industrial capitalism.
(b) Because they refused to give up their privilege as writers in industrial society.
(c) Because their vision of a just society was a corrupted version of industrial capitalism.
(d) Because they were revolutionaries who were imprisoned in the old system.

4. The German philosopher Edmund Husserl argued that objects can be regarded as things ______ by consciousness.
(a) Intended.
(b) Realized.
(c) Evaluated.
(d) Understood.

5. According to Eagleton, what happens when literary theory becomes "turgidly unreadable"?
(a) "It is being true to the importance of its form."
(b) "It is being true to its historical roots."
(c) "It is being untrue to the importance of its form."
(d) "It is being untrue to its historical roots."

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In the eighteenth-century, what was the whole body of writing in society considered, including philosophy, letters, history, poems, and essays?

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."

4. According to the Russian formalist Osip Brik, Pushkin's "Eugene Onegin" would have been written if Pushkin had what?

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

(see the answer key)

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