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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, Reception Theory.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is the example Eagleton gives of the sign in the London Underground system that "dogs must be carried on the escalator" a case of estrangement?
(a) Because the language is prosaic and straightforward.
(b) Because the statement is a directive where people who do not follow are estranged from society.
(c) Because of the ambiguities inherent in the statement, which raises questions about its meaning.
(d) Because the directive is unambigious and therefore inherently meaningful.

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

3. What is the name of the economist Eagleton discusses in his preface?
(a) Gordon Tuck.
(b) I. Fischer.
(c) Adam Smith.
(d) J. M. Keynes.

4. What proposes a "severe problem" for Husserl's theory?
(a) Truth.
(b) Consciousness.
(c) Individuality.
(d) Language.

5. What is the name of the American hermeneuticist E.D. Hirsch Jr.'s famous 1967 book?
(a) "Meaning or Method."
(b) "Being and Time."
(c) "Validity in Interpretation."
(d) "Truth and Fact."

Short Answer Questions

1. Eagleton argues that for Stanley Fish, what a text "does" to us is a matter of what we do to what?

2. What date does Eagleton settle on as the "beginnings of the transformation which has taken over literary theory in this century"?

3. For Eagleton, E.D. Hirsch attempts to "offer a form of knowledge" that is what?

4. What three sequential stages does Eagleton point out in the development of modern literary theory?

5. The German philosopher Edmund Husserl argued that objects can be regarded as things ______ by consciousness.

(see the answer key)

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