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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 was glad to abandon the "feminine vagaries of literature" in favor of penning war propaganda?
(a) George Gordon.
(b) Walter Raleigh.
(c) Lord Byron.
(d) Matthew Arnold.

2. Literary texts are code-productive, code-transgressive, and code_____.
(a) Affirming.
(b) Saturating.
(c) Confirming.
(d) Orienting.

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

4. In American deconstruction, why does literary criticism become an "ironic, uneasy business"?
(a) Because it lays bare the temporality of meaning.
(b) Because it lays bare the illusoriness of meaning.
(c) Because it lays bare the physicality of meaning.
(d) Because it lays bare the permanence of meaning.

5. According to Eagleton, the sentence "this is awfully squiggly handwriting" from Knut Hamsun's "Hunger" tells him its literary because of what reason?
(a) The content.
(b) The context.
(c) The ideas.
(d) The facts.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Eagleton, the literary work in Romantic society is seen as a ________ that is in contrast to the "fragmented individualism" of capitalist society?

3. What is the name of the Yale theorist who believed that all language is metaphorical?

4. According to Eagleton, structuralism has proved that there is nothing _____ about codes.

5. What are the three points Eagleton notes about the method of structuralism?

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