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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 kind of analysis is phenomenology, according to Eagleton?
(a) Uncritical and discursive.
(b) Critical and discursive.
(c) Discursive and non-evaluative.
(d) Uncritical and non-evaluative.

2. Who was Husserl's most famous pupil who broke with his system of thought?
(a) Hannah Arendt.
(b) Martin Heidegger.
(c) Walter Benjamin.
(d) Ayn Rand.

3. 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 two signifiers."
(c) "A disproportion between signifiers and signifieds."
(d) "A disproportion between one signifier for every other signified."

4. For Eagleton, E.D. Hirsch attempts to "offer a form of knowledge" that is what?
(a) Telling.
(b) Temporary.
(c) Titular.
(d) Timeless.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What proposes a "severe problem" for Husserl's theory?

2. Roland Barthes "double" sign is the "grandchild" of what kind of language of the Formalist and Czech structuralists?

3. For Eagleton, opposition between "historical" and "artistic" truth does NOT apply to what?

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

5. Both F.R. Leavis and Edmund Husserl seek to grasp the thing in itself, or the ______for Husserl and ______for Leavis.

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