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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. Why is structuralism "anti-humanist," for Eagleton?
(a) Because it rejected the myth that meaning begins and ends with individual experience.
(b) Because it rejected the myth the individual experience begins and ends with structure.
(c) Because it rejected the myth that individuality was humanist.
(d) Because it rejected the myth that humanity was humane.
2. What does Jacques Derrida label any thought system which depends on an unassailable foundation?
(a) Metaphysical.
(b) Philosophical.
(c) Teleological.
(d) Mythical.
3. 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?
(a) "Tristram Shandy."
(b) "History of the Rebellion."
(c) "Don Quixote."
(d) "Animal Farm."
4. According to Eagleton, who would an ideal reader be for a structuralist?
(a) Someone who had all the codes at her or his disposal.
(b) Someone who had the right codes at her or his disposal.
(c) Someone who had intelligent codes at her or his disposal.
(d) Someone who didn't have any codes at her or his disposal.
5. What kind of language does Eagleton say people think of literature as?
(a) Ordinary.
(b) Dull.
(c) Strange.
(d) Difficult.
Short Answer Questions
1. What commonality does structuralism and phenomenology share, according to Eagleton?
2. Eagleton's goal in "Literary Theory: An Introduction" is to provide a comprehensive account of literary theory for whom?
3. According to Eagleton, what kind of age do we live in, where "meaning, like everything else, is expected to be instantly consumable"?
4. For Roland Barthes, what kind of literature attempts to conceal the constructed nature of language?
5. According to Eagleton, Stanley Fish's model excludes the possibility that there is a ______ of interpretations?
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