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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Structuralism and Semiotics.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to Eagleton, what kind of age do we live in, where "meaning, like everything else, is expected to be instantly consumable"?
(a) Esoteric.
(b) Traditional.
(c) Modern.
(d) Postmodern.

3. Eagleton's goal in "Literary Theory: An Introduction" is to provide a comprehensive account of literary theory for whom?
(a) Those who have some knowledge of literary theory.
(b) Those with little knowledge of literary theory.
(c) Those with extensive knowledge of literary theory.
(d) Those who have specialised knowledge of literary theory.

4. By the early 1930s, the study of English literature became what kind of pursuit?
(a) A singular narrowminded pursuit.
(b) A supremely civilizing pursuit.
(c) A singular openminded pursuit.
(d) A supremel uncivilized pursuit.

5. Eagleton argues that the readership his book has attracted dispels the notion that literary theory is what?
(a) Elitist.
(b) Misguided.
(c) Simple.
(d) Boring.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Eagleton argues that if literature includes much factual writing, it also excludes "quite a lot of" what?

3. According to Eagleton, the formalists were not out to define literature but they were out to define what?

4. According to Eagleton, what becomes the "panacea for all problems" as part of the romantics' aesthetic theory at the turn of the eighteenth century?

5. The Russian formalists rejected what kind of doctrines that had influenced literary criticism?

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