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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. Who said "there is no cultural document that is not at the same time a record of barbarism"?
(a) Julia Kristeva.
(b) Karl Marx.
(c) Michel Foucault.
(d) Walter Benjamin.

2. According to Eagleton, there are forms of post-structuralism that represent what kind of withdrawal from history?
(a) Intellectual.
(b) Pragmatic.
(c) Hedonist.
(d) Calm.

3. The transition from structuralism to post-structuralism is partly in response to what movement?
(a) Women's movement.
(b) Marxist's movement.
(c) Christian movement.
(d) Student movement.

4. What is a belief in "ultimate word, presence, essence, truth, or reality"?
(a) Technocentric.
(b) Logocentric.
(c) Phallocentric.
(d) Egocentric.

5. According to Sigmund Freud, what distinguishes humans from other animals?
(a) We mature early and die later.
(b) We experience pain.
(c) We are born helpless and dependent.
(d) We have unfulfilled desires.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the founder of modern structural linguistics?

2. Why do feminists embrace the work of Jacques Lacan, despite the fact that he was contemptuous of the women's movement?

3. For Eagleton, what are the two ways in which literary theory can have a distinct purpose and identity?

4. According to Eagleton, the Western philosophical tradition has "consistently vilified" what?

5. What is the difference between metaphor and metonymy?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Why does Eagleton argue that politics should engage with questions of sexual ideology?

10. How did Mikhail Bakhtin view language?

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