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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Eagleton, why did the women's movement reject the economic focus of classical Marxist thought?
(a) Because it failed to place material conditions over sexual ideology at the heart of its theory and practice.
(b) Because it placed sexual ideology over the material conditions at the heart of its theory and practice.
(c) Because it failed to place sexual ideology at the heart of its theory and practice.
(d) Because it succeeded in placing sexual ideology at the heart of its theory and practice.

2. What is the "impotence" of liberal humanism a symptom of, according to Eagleton?
(a) Its contradictory relationship to capitalism.
(b) Its sense of entitlement in relation to the world.
(c) Its refusal to examine the facts.
(d) Its absurd claims in the face of suffering.

3. What is the name of two principles Sigmund Freud identified?
(a) Pleasure principle and rational principle.
(b) Rational principle and ideal principle.
(c) Pleasure principle and reality principle.
(d) Ideal principle and reality principle.

4. What does Sigmund Freud call the first stage of sexual life?
(a) The anal stage.
(b) The oral stage.
(c) The erogenous stage.
(d) The phallic stage.

5. What is the name of the author whose story "Sarrasine" Roland Barthes examines in "S/Z"?
(a) Nabokov.
(b) Eliot.
(c) Balzac.
(d) Tolstoy.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Eagleton, what term is "most-widely touted" in cultural theory?

2. Roland Barthes "double" sign is the "grandchild" of what kind of language of the Formalist and Czech structuralists?

3. Why should politics engage with questions of sexual ideology, according to Eagleton?

4. Literary texts are code-productive, code-transgressive, and code_____.

5. According to Sigmund Freud, what distinguishes humans from other animals?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Eagleton reject the idea of a disconnected individual in society?

2. Why does Eagleton claim that Northrop Frye's work emphasized the "utopian root'" of all literature and what is his response?

3. What is structuralism and how what does it share in common with formalism?

4. Who developed semiotics and what was his contribution to literary theory?

5. During the 1960s and 1970s why did feminist scholars reject Marxist thought on the left?

6. According to Sigmund Freud, what are the two conflicting principles that all people are motivated by and why is it significant?

7. What is Sigmund Freud's Oedipus complex and why is it significant?

8. What is Eagleton's main critique of the some forms of post-structuralism and why is it significant?

9. How does Julia Kristeva view language and why is it significant?

10. How does the philosopher Jacques Derrida conceive of language?

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