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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 was glad to abandon the "feminine vagaries of literature" in favor of penning war propaganda?
(a) Matthew Arnold.
(b) Lord Byron.
(c) Walter Raleigh.
(d) George Gordon.

2. The Russian formalists rejected what kind of doctrines that had influenced literary criticism?
(a) Quasi-mystical symbolist doctrines.
(b) Quasi-mystical psychoanalytic doctrines.
(c) Quasi-mystical religious doctrines.
(d) Quasi-mystical fictional doctrines.

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

4. For Eagleton, opposition between "historical" and "artistic" truth does NOT apply to what?
(a) Middle English.
(b) Fairy-tales.
(c) Late Victorian novels.
(d) Early Icelandic sagas.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Eagleton, "In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, the word ______seems to have been used about true and fictional events."

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

3. How did post-structuralism respond to France's student movement's failed attempt to break state power?

4. According to Viktor Shklovsky, what novel was "the most typical novel in world literature" because it impeded its own story-line so that it never gets off the ground?

5. According to Eagleton, the literary work in Romantic society is seen as a ________ that is in contrast to the "fragmented individualism" of capitalist society?

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