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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the Romantic artist reflect her or his work in its detachment from history itself?
(a) Because she or he was seen as a minor commodity who existed on the margins of society.
(b) Because she or he was seen as a consumer of commodities who bought their goods for low pay.
(c) Because she or he was seen as a producer of commodities who sold their goods for high pay.
(d) Because she or he was seen as a major commodity who existed within society.

2. What is the name of the Yale theorist who believed that all language is metaphorical?
(a) Julia Kristeva.
(b) Northrop Frye.
(c) Paul de Man.
(d) Michel Foucault.

3. Both F.R. Leavis and Edmund Husserl seek to grasp the thing in itself, or the ______for Husserl and ______for Leavis.
(a) Eidos; life.
(b) Image; eidos.
(c) Idea; essence.
(d) Idea; life.

4. According to Eagleton, the women's movement is not just about women having equal status and power as men, it is what?
(a) The abdication of sex altogether in relations of status and power.
(b) The acceptance of sexual difference in relations of status and power.
(c) The questioning of all status and power.
(d) The rejection of men's status and power.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. By the early 1930s, the study of English literature became what kind of pursuit?

2. According to Eagleton, literature is definable "not according to whether it is fictional or "imaginative," because it uses language in ____ways."

3. According to Eagleton, one of the gains of structuralism is that it represents a "remorseless _____of literature."

4. Who silenced the Russian formalists, according to Eagleton?

5. According to Eagleton, why is it an illusion to think that he can be present to us in what he says and writes?

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