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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name Edmund Husserl gave to his philosophical method?
(a) Reception theory.
(b) Hermeneutics.
(c) Phenomenology.
(d) New criticism.

2. According to Eagleton, what "staggering fact" could not be put right by a theoretical technique?
(a) There was no time in history where half of the human race fought for equality.
(b) That there was no time in history where women were not considered superior.
(c) That there was no time in history where half of the human race was not considered inferior.
(d) There was no time in history where women and men were antagonists.

3. According to Eagleton, the Russian formalist shifted their attention to the "material reality" of what?
(a) The critic.
(b) The facts.
(c) The text.
(d) The fiction.

4. When did Sigmund Freud develop psychoanalysis?
(a) Mid-twentieth century.
(b) Late-twentieth century.
(c) Mid-nineteenth century.
(d) Late-nineteenth century.

5. According to Eagleton, the sentence "this is awfully squiggly handwriting" from Knut Hamsun's "Hunger" tells him its literary because of what reason?
(a) The content.
(b) The context.
(c) The ideas.
(d) The facts.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Eagleton, the Western philosophical tradition has "consistently vilified" what?

2. According to Eagleton, literature is definable "not according to whether it is fictional or "imaginative," because it uses language in ____ways."

3. What is the German word for how reality is not objective, but experienced and organized by an individual subject?

4. What is the "literary canon"?

5. According to Eagleton, Stanley Fish's model excludes the possibility that there is a ______ of interpretations?

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