engl121-Quiz03-TheoryToolBox Chapter 3

Name: Kenneth Sherwood (Preview)

Number of questions: 5

Question 1  (1.00 points)

Nealon and Giroux want to exchange the "absolute control of the reader" for the "absolute control of the author"

            a.         True 

            b.         False 

Question 2  (1.00 points)

The notion that there are "as many facts as there were interpreters" is:

            a.         The price of abandoning the author 

            b.         Revolutionary and "even interesting" 

            c.         "author centered" 

            d.         "pernicious relativism" 

Question 3  (1.00 points)

The meaning produced in reading a slavery-era text today

            a.         Varies with the context of the time and place 

            b.         Remains constant across time 

            c.         Loses the fundamental truth of what it once meant 

Question 4  (1.00 points)

The arbitrariness of signification (the relation of signifiers/words and signifieds/ideas) means

            a.         Words have natural, unalterable meanings 

            b.         Words can be assigned any meaning by an author or speaker 

            c.         Words take meaning from social context and relation to other words 

Question 5  (1.00 points)

"Football" means the same thing in Green Bay and London.

            a.         True 

            b.         False