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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Conclusion, Political Criticism.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Eagleton, why did intellectuals preoccupy themselves with language in the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries?
(a) Because discourse had become an instrument of opposition in academia.
(b) Because discourse had become degraded to an instrument of industrial capitalism.
(c) Because discourse had become irrelevant in industrial society.
(d) Because discourse had become elevated by intellectuals.

2. For Jacques Lacan, "meaning is always in some sense an _______."
(a) Allocation.
(b) Abdication.
(c) Amalgamation.
(d) Approximation.

3. Literary texts are code-productive, code-transgressive, and code_____.
(a) Affirming.
(b) Confirming.
(c) Saturating.
(d) Orienting.

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

5. According to the Russian critic Roman Jakobson, literature represents "organized ______committed on ordinary _______."
(a) Religion; writing.
(b) Violence; speech.
(c) Protest; speech.
(d) Violence; people.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What is the name of the American hermeneuticist E.D. Hirsch Jr.'s famous 1967 book?

3. For Eagleton, E.D. Hirsch attempts to "offer a form of knowledge" that is what?

4. What does Sigmund Freud see as the "royal road" to the unconscious?

5. What is the name of the Russian formalist who published the pioneering essay that is the "beginnings of the transformation which has taken over literary theory in this century"?

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