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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Psychoanalysis.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. According to Eagleton, what kind of thought does literary education NOT encourage?
(a) Irrational thought.
(b) Rational thought.
(c) Creative thought.
(d) Analytical thought.
2. According to Jacques Lacan, what is the "symbolic order"?
(a) It is the pre-given structure of social and sexual desires that make up a self.
(b) It is the emergence of an imaginary conflict with the parental figures.
(c) It is the pre-given structure of social and sexual roles that make up the family and society.
(d) It is the reconciliation of an imaginary conflict with the parental figures.
3. For E.D. Hirsch, the aim of "policing" an author's meaning is to what, according to Eagleton?
(a) Protect her/his "private property."
(b) Alter her/his "private property."
(c) Control her/his "private property."
(d) Sell her/his "private property."
4. When did Sigmund Freud develop psychoanalysis?
(a) Late-twentieth century.
(b) Mid-twentieth century.
(c) Mid-nineteenth century.
(d) Late-nineteenth century.
5. According to Eagleton, the Russian formalist shifted their attention to the "material reality" of what?
(a) The fiction.
(b) The critic.
(c) The text.
(d) The facts.
Short Answer Questions
1. According to Eagleton, what kind of age do we live in, where "meaning, like everything else, is expected to be instantly consumable"?
2. According to Eagleton, "in the terminology of reception theory, the reader _________ the literary work, which is in itself no more than a chain of organized black marks on a page."
3. In the eighteenth-century, what was the whole body of writing in society considered, including philosophy, letters, history, poems, and essays?
4. What is the name of the critic from the Constance school of reception aesthetics and the author of "The Act of Reading" who Eagleton discusses at length?
5. For Eagleton, opposition between "historical" and "artistic" truth does NOT apply to what?
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