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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) Entrenchment and dissemination.
(b) Violence and abdication.
(c) Religion and redemption.
(d) Education and oppression.

2. What commonality does structuralism and phenomenology share, according to Eagleton?
(a) They both shut out the material world in order to revert to pre-consciousness.
(b) They both immerse themselves in the material world in order to understand the subconscious.
(c) They both immerse themselves in the material world in order to become conscious of it.
(d) They both shut out the material world in order to understand our consciousness of it.

3. According to the Russian critic Roman Jakobson, literature represents "organized ______committed on ordinary _______."
(a) Violence; people.
(b) Violence; speech.
(c) Religion; writing.
(d) Protest; speech.

4. Eagleton provides the analogy of finding a "scrap of writing from a long-vanished civilization" to make what point about deciphering its meaning?
(a) That we would be able to see that poetry didn't exist by looking at its language.
(b) That we would not know whether it was a piece of poetry or ordinary language.
(c) That we would be able to tell that it was a piece of poetry regardless of access to its language.
(d) That we would be able to learn that it was a piece of poetry by looking at the language.

5. According to Eagleton, structuralism maintains that "individual units of any system have meaning only by virtue of" what?
(a) Their meaning for the critic.
(b) Their status in the world.
(c) Their relations to one another.
(d) Their connection to religion.

Short Answer Questions

1. For Eagleton, E.D. Hirsch attempts to "offer a form of knowledge" that is what?

2. What role does reception theory examine?

3. Both F.R. Leavis and Edmund Husserl seek to grasp the thing in itself, or the ______for Husserl and ______for Leavis.

4. What year did France's student movement strike against the authoritarianism of the educational institutions and in solidarity with the working-class?

5. Eagleton argues that the readership his book has attracted dispels the notion that literary theory is what?

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