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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. 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 are deeply integrated in human experience.
(c) Because sexism and gender roles do not exist in human experience.
(d) Because sexism and gender roles should persist in human experience.

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

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

4. Jacques Lacan argues that like _______ desire emerges from a lack, which it strives to fulfill.
(a) Identity.
(b) Faith.
(c) Myth.
(d) Language.

5. What aspect of Jacques Lacan's work is of particular interest to literary theorists?
(a) Lacan's work on women.
(b) Lacan's work on history.
(c) Lacan's work on language.
(d) Lacan's work on religion.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the founder of modern structural linguistics?

2. According to Sigmund Freud, what is the process by which human beings cope with desires they cannot fulfill by directing them towards a more socially valued goal?

3. According to Eagleton, what is the "point" of literary theory?

4. According to Jacques Lacan, what is the "symbolic order"?

5. The modern history of literary theory has been characterized by a flight from what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the three stages of development in psychoanalysis and how do they relate to literary theory?

2. According to Eagleton, why should the notion of literary theory be abolished?

3. According to Eagleton, why should rhetorical science replace literary theory and what is its objective?

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

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

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

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

8. For Roland Barthes, what does literature embody and why is it significant?

9. What was a "healthy" sign according to Roland Barthes and why is it significant?

10. Beyond helping the status of women, what is the women's movement's goal and why is it significant?

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