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

2. What kind of language does Eagleton say people think of literature as?
(a) Dull.
(b) Difficult.
(c) Strange.
(d) Ordinary.

3. What example from the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries does Eagleton provide that was not considered purely factual?
(a) News.
(b) Decrees.
(c) Novels.
(d) Sermons.

4. During the 1960s, what kind of students began to enter higher education that broke down assumptions about literary studies?
(a) Students from supposedly "cultivated" backgrounds.
(b) Students from supposedly "uncultivated" backgrounds.
(c) Students from supposedly "first-world" countries.
(d) Students from supposedly "third-world" countries.

5. What novel by John Updike does Eagleton discuss from the position of reception theory?
(a) Rabbit Run.
(b) Couples.
(c) Of the Farm.
(d) Terrorist.

Short Answer Questions

1. For the Romantics, why was their vision of a just society was inverted into a nostalgia for an old and "organic" England?

2. According to Eagleton, the sentence "this is awfully squiggly handwriting" from Knut Hamsun's "Hunger" tells him its literary because of what reason?

3. What year did Terry Eagleton's "Literary Theory: An Introduction" first appear?

4. For Eagleton, how did the romantics usher a "forestalling of reasoned critical enquiry"?

5. How do linguists describe the effect of language where "the texture, rhythm and resonance of words are in excess of their abstractable meaning."

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