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

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

3. What is the name Edmund Husserl gave to his philosophical method?
(a) New criticism.
(b) Reception theory.
(c) Phenomenology.
(d) Hermeneutics.

4. The English philosopher J. L. Austin saw language as what?
(a) Progressive.
(b) Performative.
(c) Pejorative.
(d) Penultimate.

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?
(a) The word.
(b) The symbol.
(c) The image.
(d) The text.

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. Who was Husserl's most famous pupil who broke with his system of thought?

3. According to Eagleton, why did the women's movement reject the economic focus of classical Marxist thought?

4. According to Eagleton, the "very meaning of _______, ________ and _________ has undergone deep alteration."

5. What is the name of the author whose story "Sarrasine" Roland Barthes examines in "S/Z"?

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