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

2. According to Eagleton, "any method or theory which will contribute to the strategic goal of human emancipation" is what?
(a) "Naive."
(b) "Redundant."
(c) "Acceptable."
(d) "Critical."

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

4. Why is structuralism "anti-humanist," for Eagleton?
(a) Because it rejected the myth that humanity was humane.
(b) Because it rejected the myth the individual experience begins and ends with structure.
(c) Because it rejected the myth that meaning begins and ends with individual experience.
(d) Because it rejected the myth that individuality was humanist.

5. According to Eagleton, "the meaning of a sign is a matter of what the sign is _____."
(a) For.
(b) Not.
(c) Signifying.
(d) Doing.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Eagleton, "theory was a way of _______ literary works from the ________of civilised sensibility'"

2. Who is the founder of modern structural linguistics?

3. For Roland Barthes, what kind of literature attempts to conceal the constructed nature of language?

4. According to Eagleton, there are forms of post-structuralism that represent what kind of withdrawal from history?

5. According to Eagleton, the "very meaning of _______, ________ and _________ has undergone deep alteration."

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