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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Eagleton, "in the terminology of reception theory, the reader _________ the literary work, which is in itself no more than a chain of organized black marks on a page."
(a) Sanitizes.
(b) Concretizes.
(c) Rationalizes.
(d) Terrorizes.

2. Why should politics engage with questions of sexual ideology, according to Eagleton?
(a) Because sexism and gender roles do not exist in human experience.
(b) Because sexism and gender roles are not deeply integrated in human experience.
(c) Because sexism and gender roles should persist in human experience.
(d) Because sexism and gender roles are deeply integrated in human experience.

3. For Eagleton, what are the two ways in which literary theory can have a distinct purpose and identity?
(a) It can define itself in terms of eradicating inquiry or the object being enquire into.
(b) It can define itself in terms of other methods of inquiry and the manner of enquiry.
(c) It can define itself in terms of methods of inquiry and the manner of enquiry.
(d) It can define itself in terms of methods of inquiry or the object being enquired into.

4. For Eagleton, how did the romantics usher a "forestalling of reasoned critical enquiry"?
(a) Because the symbol was regarded as an absolute spiritual truth that you either saw or didn't see.
(b) Because the image was seen as material reality that you saw immediately.
(c) Because the word was seen as a refleciton of religious truths that you either saw or didn't see.
(d) Because the text was regarded as a reflection of society that you either saw or didn't see.

5. According to Eagleton, literary theorists "are not so much ______of doctrine as ________of a discourse."
(a) Critics; creators.
(b) Teachers; students.
(c) Purveyors; custodians.
(d) Writers; readers.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Eagleton, why is it an illusion to think that he can be present to us in what he says and writes?

2. How far has the "theoretical revolution" spread according to Eagleton?

3. According to Eagleton, what "staggering fact" could not be put right by a theoretical technique?

4. Roland Barthes "double" sign is the "grandchild" of what kind of language of the Formalist and Czech structuralists?

5. Who is the key figure in the Victorian period Eagleton cites as "preternaturally aware of the needs of his social class"?

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