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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 is "imaginative" literature or literature that is not necessarily true?
(a) Biography.
(b) Memoir.
(c) Nonfiction.
(d) Fiction.

2. What is the name of the Russian formalist who published the pioneering essay that is the "beginnings of the transformation which has taken over literary theory in this century"?
(a) Leo Tolstoy.
(b) Alexander Pushkin.
(c) Fyodor Dostoevsky.
(d) Viktor Shklovsky.

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

4. What role does reception theory examine?
(a) The critic's role.
(b) The author's role.
(c) The reader's role.
(d) The teacher's role.

5. What is the name of the pioneering essay the Russian formalist wrote that is the "beginnings of the transformation which has taken over literary theory in this century"?
(a) Literature as Image.
(b) Film as Thought.
(c) Theory as Practise.
(d) Art as Device.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the Yale theorist who believed that all language is metaphorical?

2. How did the Romantic artist reflect her or his work in its detachment from history itself?

3. During the last decades of the eighteenth-century, the word prosaic begins to acquire what a kind of connotation?

4. According to Eagleton, the French structural anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss did pioneering work on what?

5. Why should politics engage with questions of sexual ideology, according to Eagleton?

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