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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The distinction between fact and fiction in defining literature is what?
(a) Complicated.
(b) Difficult.
(c) Important.
(d) Questionable.

2. The German philosopher Edmund Husserl argued that objects can be regarded as things ______ by consciousness.
(a) Intended.
(b) Understood.
(c) Evaluated.
(d) Realized.

3. What are Northrop Frye's three recurrent patterns of symbolism in literature?
(a) Apocalyptic, demonic, analogical.
(b) Tragic, comic, romantic.
(c) Comic, apocalyptic, romantic.
(d) Analogical, demonic, tragic.

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

5. According to Eagleton, structuralism has proved that there is nothing _____ about codes.
(a) Evaluative.
(b) Progressive.
(c) Guilty.
(d) Innocent.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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"?

3. How did the Romantic artist reflect her or his work in its detachment from history itself?

4. For E.D. Hirsch, the aim of "policing" an author's meaning is to what, according to Eagleton?

5. According to Eagleton, the Russian formalist shifted their attention to the "material reality" of what?

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