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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, eighteenth-century literature embodied more than social values, it also was an instrument for what?
(a) Religion and redemption.
(b) Education and oppression.
(c) Entrenchment and dissemination.
(d) Violence and abdication.

2. According to Eagleton, who would an ideal reader be for a structuralist?
(a) Someone who had the right codes at her or his disposal.
(b) Someone who had all the codes at her or his disposal.
(c) Someone who didn't have any codes at her or his disposal.
(d) Someone who had intelligent codes at her or his disposal.

3. What is NOT a material reality in the oppression of women?
(a) Job Discrimination.
(b) Equal wages.
(c) Motherhood.
(d) Unequal wages.

4. The English philosopher J. L. Austin saw language as what?
(a) Penultimate.
(b) Pejorative.
(c) Performative.
(d) Progressive.

5. What year did Terry Eagleton's "Literary Theory: An Introduction" first appear?
(a) 1983.
(b) 1943.
(c) 1993.
(d) 1963.

Short Answer Questions

1. The transition from structuralism to post-structuralism is partly in response to what movement?

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

3. During the Romantic period, how is literature more than "idle escapism"?

4. For Eagleton, what are the two ways in which literary theory can have a distinct purpose and identity?

5. According to Eagleton, what idea is "truly elitist" in literary studies?

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