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

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

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

4. According to Eagleton, who would an ideal reader be for a structuralist?
(a) Someone who had intelligent codes at her or his disposal.
(b) Someone who had the right 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Eagleton, the women's movement is not just about women having equal status and power as men, it is what?

3. According to Eagleton, structuralism exposed what "shocking truth"?

4. What three neurotic symptoms can a person develop that are the result of internal conflict, according to Sigmund Freud?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the dominant ideology within academia and what are its major problems?

3. How did Mikhail Bakhtin view language?

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

5. What is structuralism's lasting impact on literary theory and what is Eagleton's critique of their methodology?

6. How did Northrop Frye attempt to combine the formalist focus on the text with the essence of new American criticism?

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

8. What are the four areas Eagleton discusses rhetoric should target that would bring about transformation in society?

9. What does Julia Kristeva define as "semiotic" and why is it significant?

10. What is significant about the ways in which Sigmund Freud treated women and men?

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