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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, what kind of thought does literary education NOT encourage?
(a) Rational thought.
(b) Irrational thought.
(c) Creative thought.
(d) Analytical thought.

2. According to Eagleton, structuralism exposed what "shocking truth"?
(a) That even our most pleasurable experience is outside the realm of structure.
(b) That even our most painful experience is outside the realm of structure.
(c) That even our most intimate experience is the effect of a structure.
(d) The even our most private thoughts is caused by structure.

3. According to Eagleton, the women's movement is not just about women having equal status and power as men, it is what?
(a) The rejection of men's status and power.
(b) The acceptance of sexual difference in relations of status and power.
(c) The abdication of sex altogether in relations of status and power.
(d) The questioning of all status and power.

4. In the eighteenth-century, what was the whole body of writing in society considered, including philosophy, letters, history, poems, and essays?
(a) Literature.
(b) Canon.
(c) Theory.
(d) Religion.

5. For Eagleton, hostility toward theory means what?
(a) Opposition to other people's theories and oblivion of one's own.
(b) Acceptance to some people's theories and protective of one's own.
(c) Acceptance to some people's theories.
(d) Opposition to other people's theories.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Eagleton, the approaches outlined in his book have implications where?

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

3. According to the Soviet semiotician Yury Lotman, a poetic text is "semantically _________."

4. According to Eagleton, Gibbon and the authors of Genesis share what in common?

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

(see the answer key)

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