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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Literary texts are code-productive, code-transgressive, and code_____.
(a) Saturating.
(b) Affirming.
(c) Confirming.
(d) Orienting.

2. According to Eagleton, "the idea that there are 'non-political' forms of criticism" is a what?
(a) Ideal.
(b) Reality.
(c) Myth.
(d) Fact.

3. According to Eagleton, the Western philosophical tradition has "consistently vilified" what?
(a) Writing.
(b) Speech.
(c) Myth.
(d) Man.

4. 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 become conscious of it.
(c) They both immerse themselves in the material world in order to understand the subconscious.
(d) They both shut out the material world in order to understand our consciousness of it.

5. According to Eagleton, what term is "most-widely touted" in cultural theory?
(a) Premodernity.
(b) Postmodernity.
(c) Modernism.
(d) Postmodernism.

6. According to Eagleton, literary theorists "are not so much ______of doctrine as ________of a discourse."
(a) Critics; creators.
(b) Teachers; students.
(c) Writers; readers.
(d) Purveyors; custodians.

7. What is the object named literature, according to Eagleton?
(a) There is no one object.
(b) All writing.
(c) Classic writing.
(d) The literary canon.

8. What is NOT a material reality in the oppression of women?
(a) Motherhood.
(b) Job Discrimination.
(c) Equal wages.
(d) Unequal wages.

9. What are Northrop Frye's three recurrent patterns of symbolism in literature?
(a) Comic, apocalyptic, romantic.
(b) Analogical, demonic, tragic.
(c) Apocalyptic, demonic, analogical.
(d) Tragic, comic, romantic.

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

11. Why should politics engage with questions of sexual ideology, according to Eagleton?
(a) Because sexism and gender roles are not deeply integrated in human experience.
(b) Because sexism and gender roles should persist in human experience.
(c) Because sexism and gender roles are deeply integrated in human experience.
(d) Because sexism and gender roles do not exist in human experience.

12. What literary movement, according to Eagleton, "brought structuralist and post-structuralist criticism to birth in the first place"?
(a) Post-modernism.
(b) Modernism.
(c) Romanticism.
(d) Surrealism.

13. According to Eagleton, who would an ideal reader be for a structuralist?
(a) Someone who had all the codes at her or his disposal.
(b) Someone who had intelligent codes at her or his disposal.
(c) Someone who had the right codes at her or his disposal.
(d) Someone who didn't have any codes at her or his disposal.

14. What year did France's student movement strike against the authoritarianism of the educational institutions and in solidarity with the working-class?
(a) 1958.
(b) 1988.
(c) 1978.
(d) 1968.

15. According to Eagleton, why did intellectuals preoccupy themselves with language in the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries?
(a) Because discourse had become elevated by intellectuals.
(b) Because discourse had become an instrument of opposition in academia.
(c) Because discourse had become irrelevant in industrial society.
(d) Because discourse had become degraded to an instrument of industrial capitalism.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Eagleton, structuralism is a ________of inquiry whereas semiotics is a ______ of study.

2. According to Eagleton, why does Northrop Frye emphasize the "utopian root of literature"?

3. 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?

4. According to Eagleton, if structuralism examined the "product" of literature, but left out what?

5. According to Eagleton, the French structural anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss did pioneering work on what?

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