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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. For the literary theorist, Mikhail Bakhtin, "linguistic community" was what kind of society?
(a) Exclusive.
(b) Heterogeneous.
(c) Homogenous.
(d) Inclusive.

2. What are the three points Eagleton notes about the method of structuralism?
(a) It is idealistic not rational; it doesn't understand the obvious meaning of the text; and the narrative content is its meaning.
(b) It is rational not idealistic; it accepts the obvious meaning of the text; and the content of the narrative is its structure.
(c) It is analytic not evaluative; it refuses obvious meaning of the text; and the content of the narrative is its structure.
(d) It is evaluative not analytic; it refuses obvious meaning of the text; and the narrative content is its meaning.

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

4. Both F.R. Leavis and Edmund Husserl seek to grasp the thing in itself, or the ______for Husserl and ______for Leavis.
(a) Image; eidos.
(b) Eidos; life.
(c) Idea; essence.
(d) Idea; life.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Eagleton, in the romantic aesthetic theory the meaning of the word literature became what?

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

4. Who silenced the Russian formalists, according to Eagleton?

5. For the economist Eagleton discusses, "those economists who dislike theory or claimed to get along better without it" were what?

(see the answer key)

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