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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For E.D. Hirsch, the aim of "policing" an author's meaning is to what, according to Eagleton?
(a) Protect her/his "private property."
(b) Sell her/his "private property."
(c) Alter her/his "private property."
(d) Control her/his "private property."

2. According to Eagleton, Stanley Fish's model excludes the possibility that there is a ______ of interpretations?
(a) Acceptance.
(b) Rejection.
(c) Dominance.
(d) Struggle.

3. Who was Husserl's most famous pupil who broke with his system of thought?
(a) Ayn Rand.
(b) Hannah Arendt.
(c) Walter Benjamin.
(d) Martin Heidegger.

4. What is the name Edmund Husserl gave to his philosophical method?
(a) New criticism.
(b) Reception theory.
(c) Phenomenology.
(d) Hermeneutics.

5. According to Eagleton, who "harnessed this Romantic humanism to the cause of the working class" in the late nineteenth-century?
(a) Samuel Coleridge.
(b) Percy Shelley.
(c) Lord Byron.
(d) William Morris.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Literary texts are code-productive, code-transgressive, and code_____.

3. According to Eagleton, the Western philosophical tradition has "consistently vilified" what?

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

5. According to Sigmund Freud, what is the name of the complex whereby a child experiences an unconscious desire for sexual union with its same sex parent?

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