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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 is the founder of modern structural linguistics?
(a) Ferdinand de Saussure.
(b) Northrop Frye.
(c) Stanley Fish.
(d) Roland Barthes.

2. What "twin impacts" does Eagleton cite in the mid-Victorian period that was particularly worrisome to the ruling class?
(a) Religious ideology and social statis.
(b) Scientific discovery and religious ideology.
(c) Scientific discovery and social change.
(d) Religious ideology and social change.

3. According to Eagleton, what is the oldest form of literary criticism?
(a) Rhetoric.
(b) Philosophy.
(c) Religion.
(d) Sociology.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. For the literary theorist, Mikhail Bakhtin, "linguistic community" was what kind of society?

2. For Jacques Lacan, "meaning is always in some sense an _______."

3. 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."

4. What date does Eagleton settle on as the "beginnings of the transformation which has taken over literary theory in this century"?

5. Eagleton argues that a literary work in Romantic society becomes what rather than rational and mechanical?

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