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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 silenced the Russian formalists, according to Eagleton?
(a) Bolsheviks.
(b) Stalinists.
(c) Socialists.
(d) Liberals.

2. How do linguists describe the effect of language where "the texture, rhythm and resonance of words are in excess of their abstractable meaning."
(a) "A disproportion between two signifieds."
(b) "A disproportion between signifiers and signifieds."
(c) "A disproportion between one signifier for every other signified."
(d) "A disproportion between two signifiers."

3. What does Jacques Derrida label any thought system which depends on an unassailable foundation?
(a) Metaphysical.
(b) Teleological.
(c) Philosophical.
(d) Mythical.

4. The transition from structuralism to post-structuralism is partly in response to what movement?
(a) Marxist's movement.
(b) Christian movement.
(c) Women's movement.
(d) Student movement.

5. According to Eagleton, Gibbon and the authors of Genesis share what in common?
(a) Both wrote historical truth that is read as fiction.
(b) Both wrote fiction that is read as fact by some and fiction by others.
(c) They both thought they were writing historical truth, but are read as fact by some and fiction by others.
(d) Both wrote fiction that is read as historical fact.

Short Answer Questions

1. From the viewpoint of Roland Barthes, Eagleton argues that "reading is less like a _______ than a _________."

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

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

4. What is the name of the American hermeneuticist E.D. Hirsch Jr.'s famous 1967 book?

5. How are "writable" texts different from ones that can be read?

(see the answer key)

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