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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, the approaches outlined in his book have implications where?
(a) Well beyond language.
(b) Well beyond literature.
(c) Well beyond feeling.
(d) Well beyond politics.

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

3. For Eagleton, what are the two ways in which literary theory can have a distinct purpose and identity?
(a) It can define itself in terms of methods of inquiry or the object being enquired into.
(b) It can define itself in terms of eradicating inquiry or the object being enquire into.
(c) It can define itself in terms of methods of inquiry and the manner of enquiry.
(d) It can define itself in terms of other methods of inquiry and the manner of enquiry.

4. The modern history of literary theory has been characterized by a flight from what?
(a) False doctrines.
(b) Real history.
(c) Absolute morality.
(d) Shifting ideas.

5. According to Sigmund Freud, what distinguishes humans from other animals?
(a) We are born helpless and dependent.
(b) We mature early and die later.
(c) We have unfulfilled desires.
(d) We experience pain.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Eagleton, what happens when literary theory becomes "turgidly unreadable"?

2. What role does reception theory examine?

3. Eagleton provides the analogy of finding a "scrap of writing from a long-vanished civilization" to make what point about deciphering its meaning?

4. Why is the example Eagleton gives of the sign in the London Underground system that "dogs must be carried on the escalator" a case of estrangement?

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

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