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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who developed hermeneutics?
(a) Roland Barthes.
(b) E.D. Hirsch.
(c) Stanley Fish.
(d) Hans-Georg Gadamer.

2. What literary movement, according to Eagleton, "brought structuralist and post-structuralist criticism to birth in the first place"?
(a) Post-modernism.
(b) Modernism.
(c) Surrealism.
(d) Romanticism.

3. Why is structuralism "anti-humanist," for Eagleton?
(a) Because it rejected the myth the individual experience begins and ends with structure.
(b) Because it rejected the myth that individuality was humanist.
(c) Because it rejected the myth that humanity was humane.
(d) Because it rejected the myth that meaning begins and ends with individual experience.

4. What is the "final logical move" for literary theory, according to Eagleton?
(a) To privatize theory for the general public.
(b) To subjugate literature for its own ends.
(c) To recognize that it is an illusion.
(d) To distance itself from the text.

5. According to Eagleton, "Literary Theory: An Introduction" has managed to reach readers beyond __________.
(a) Historians.
(b) Literature.
(c) Students.
(d) Academia.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Eagleton, in the romantic aesthetic theory the meaning of the word literature became what?

2. What role does reception theory examine?

3. According to Eagleton, the women's movement is not just about women having equal status and power as men, it is what?

4. What is one problem of adopting a plurality of critical methods, for Eagleton?

5. How do linguists describe the effect of language where "the texture, rhythm and resonance of words are in excess of their abstractable meaning."

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