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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Psychoanalysis.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During the 1960s, what kind of students began to enter higher education that broke down assumptions about literary studies?
(a) Students from supposedly "first-world" countries.
(b) Students from supposedly "cultivated" backgrounds.
(c) Students from supposedly "third-world" countries.
(d) Students from supposedly "uncultivated" backgrounds.

2. Who silenced the Russian formalists, according to Eagleton?
(a) Bolsheviks.
(b) Socialists.
(c) Liberals.
(d) Stalinists.

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

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 text.
(b) To the author.
(c) To the critic.
(d) To the reader.

5. According to Eagleton, the formalists were not out to define literature but they were out to define what?
(a) Inventiveness.
(b) Realism.
(c) Literariness.
(d) Criticism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who developed hermeneutics?

2. According to the Russian critic Roman Jakobson, literature represents "organized ______committed on ordinary _______."

3. What novel by John Updike does Eagleton discuss from the position of reception theory?

4. According to Eagleton, what kind of thought does literary education NOT encourage?

5. The distinction between fact and fiction in defining literature is what?

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