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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. What is the name of the economist Eagleton discusses in his preface?
(a) Adam Smith.
(b) I. Fischer.
(c) Gordon Tuck.
(d) J. M. Keynes.

2. What is the name of the author whose story "Sarrasine" Roland Barthes examines in "S/Z"?
(a) Eliot.
(b) Tolstoy.
(c) Balzac.
(d) Nabokov.

3. According to Eagleton, eighteenth-century literature embodied more than social values, it also was an instrument for what?
(a) Education and oppression.
(b) Religion and redemption.
(c) Entrenchment and dissemination.
(d) Violence and abdication.

4. According to Eagleton, structuralism maintains that "individual units of any system have meaning only by virtue of" what?
(a) Their meaning for the critic.
(b) Their status in the world.
(c) Their connection to religion.
(d) Their relations to one another.

5. What genre of writing does Eagleton provide that is an example of writing that is NOT considered to be literature?
(a) Science fiction.
(b) Romance.
(c) Young Adult.
(d) Comics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the difference between metaphor and metonymy?

2. According to Eagleton, why is E.D. Hirsch able to maintain his view that literary meaning is absolute and resistant to historical change?

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

4. What is the name of the Yale theorist who believed that all language is metaphorical?

5. According to Eagleton, the women's movement is not just about women having equal status and power as men, it is what?

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