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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Post-Structuralism.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Eagleton, the "very meaning of _______, ________ and _________ has undergone deep alteration."
(a) Film; viewing; education.
(b) Literature; reading; criticism.
(c) Art; theory; practise.
(d) Power; authority; freedom.

2. For the literary theorist, Mikhail Bakhtin, "linguistic community" was what kind of society?
(a) Exclusive.
(b) Heterogeneous.
(c) Homogenous.
(d) Inclusive.

3. According to Eagleton, Stanley Fish's model excludes the possibility that there is a ______ of interpretations?
(a) Rejection.
(b) Dominance.
(c) Acceptance.
(d) Struggle.

4. Eagleton argues that for Stanley Fish, what a text "does" to us is a matter of what we do to what?
(a) To the critic.
(b) To the text.
(c) To the reader.
(d) To the author.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. During the Romantic period, how is literature more than "idle escapism"?

2. According to Eagleton, "the tactic of _________criticism ... is to show how texts come to embarrass their own ruling systems of logic."

3. What is a belief in "ultimate word, presence, essence, truth, or reality"?

4. Eagleton argues that the criteria for what counted as literature in the eighteenth-century was what?

5. For the economist Eagleton discusses, "those economists who dislike theory or claimed to get along better without it" were what?

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