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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What person is NOT included in the ranks of Russian formalists?
(a) Heinrich Wolffin.
(b) Viktor Shklovsky.
(c) Roman Jakobson.
(d) Boris Tomashevsky.

2. According to Eagleton, William Empson "insists on treating poetry as a species of ______language."
(a) Religious.
(b) Ordinary.
(c) Spectacular.
(d) Secular.

3. What role does reception theory examine?
(a) The author's role.
(b) The reader's role.
(c) The teacher's role.
(d) The critic's role.

4. What are the three points Eagleton notes about the method of structuralism?
(a) It is evaluative not analytic; it refuses obvious meaning of the text; and the narrative content is its meaning.
(b) It is rational not idealistic; it accepts the obvious meaning of the text; and the content of the narrative is its structure.
(c) It is analytic not evaluative; it refuses obvious meaning of the text; and the content of the narrative is its structure.
(d) It is idealistic not rational; it doesn't understand the obvious meaning of the text; and the narrative content is its meaning.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of two principles Sigmund Freud identified?

2. How did post-structuralism respond to France's student movement's failed attempt to break state power?

3. According to Eagleton, the women's movement is not just about women having equal status and power as men, it is what?

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

5. According to Eagleton, the subject in phenomenology was the source of all what?

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