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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Conclusion, Political Criticism.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For Roland Barthes, what kind of literature attempts to conceal the constructed nature of language?
(a) Feminist.
(b) Post-structuralist.
(c) Realist.
(d) Fantasy.

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

3. What genre of writing does Eagleton provide that is an example of writing that is NOT considered to be literature?
(a) Romance.
(b) Comics.
(c) Young Adult.
(d) Science fiction.

4. From the viewpoint of Roland Barthes, Eagleton argues that "reading is less like a _______ than a _________."
(a) "Boudoir; laboratory."
(b) "Laboratory; boudoir."
(c) "Boudoir; system."
(d) "Philosophy; laboratory."

5. According to Eagleton, structuralism maintains that "individual units of any system have meaning only by virtue of" what?
(a) Their relations to one another.
(b) Their meaning for the critic.
(c) Their connection to religion.
(d) Their status in the world.

Short Answer Questions

1. What literary movement, according to Eagleton, "brought structuralist and post-structuralist criticism to birth in the first place"?

2. According to Eagleton, what becomes the "panacea for all problems" as part of the romantics' aesthetic theory at the turn of the eighteenth century?

3. Who wrote "What is Literature" on literary reception and was published in 1948?

4. What are Northrop Frye's three recurrent patterns of symbolism in literature?

5. What is the name of the American hermeneuticist E.D. Hirsch Jr.'s famous 1967 book?

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