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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, structuralism is a ________of inquiry whereas semiotics is a ______ of study.
(a) Manner; field.
(b) Field; type.
(c) Method; field.
(d) Type; manner.

2. According to Sigmund Freud, what is the name of the complex whereby a child experiences an unconscious desire for sexual union with its same sex parent?
(a) The Pandora complex.
(b) The Medusa complex.
(c) The Eros complex.
(d) The Oedipus complex.

3. According to Eagleton, "theory was a way of _______ literary works from the ________of civilised sensibility'"
(a) Emancipating; stranglehold.
(b) Excluding; oppression.
(c) Dismissing; idea.
(d) Studying; truth.

4. According to Eagleton, structuralism exposed what "shocking truth"?
(a) That even our most pleasurable experience is outside the realm of structure.
(b) That even our most painful experience is outside the realm of structure.
(c) The even our most private thoughts is caused by structure.
(d) That even our most intimate experience is the effect of a structure.

5. What is the name of two principles Sigmund Freud identified?
(a) Pleasure principle and rational principle.
(b) Ideal principle and reality principle.
(c) Pleasure principle and reality principle.
(d) Rational principle and ideal principle.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What kind of language does Eagleton say people think of literature as?

3. For Eagleton, hostility toward theory means what?

4. What is the difference between metaphor and metonymy?

5. Why is structuralism "anti-humanist," for Eagleton?

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