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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. According to Eagleton, the women's movement is not just about women having equal status and power as men, it is what?
(a) The rejection of men's status and power.
(b) The acceptance of sexual difference in relations of status and power.
(c) The questioning of all status and power.
(d) The abdication of sex altogether in relations of status and power.

2. According to Eagleton, Stanley Fish's model excludes the possibility that there is a ______ of interpretations?
(a) Rejection.
(b) Dominance.
(c) Acceptance.
(d) Struggle.

3. What is NOT a material reality in the oppression of women?
(a) Motherhood.
(b) Unequal wages.
(c) Job Discrimination.
(d) Equal wages.

4. During the Romantic period, how is literature more than "idle escapism"?
(a) It is the rejection of creative values celebrated in English society.
(b) It is the celebration of totalarian values enforced in English society.
(c) It is the affirmation of creative values expunged from English society.
(d) It is the acceptance of totalarian values rejected in English society.

5. According to Eagleton, why is E.D. Hirsch able to maintain his view that literary meaning is absolute and resistant to historical change?
(a) Because meaning is viewed as pre-modern.
(b) Because meaning is viewed as pre-linguistic.
(c) Because meaning is viewed as pre-arranged.
(d) Because meaning is viewed as pre-historic.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who silenced the Russian formalists, according to Eagleton?

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

3. Literary texts are code-productive, code-transgressive, and code_____.

4. What word does Eagleton discuss that is both a descriptive term to mean "literally untrue" as well as an evaluative term to mean "visionary" or "inventive"?

5. By the early 1930s, the study of English literature became what kind of pursuit?

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