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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 Jacques Lacan, what stage does a child first develop an ego?
(a) During the imaginary stage.
(b) During the Oedipal stage.
(c) During the mirror stage.
(d) During the post-Oedipal stage.

2. What proposes a "severe problem" for Husserl's theory?
(a) Language.
(b) Consciousness.
(c) Truth.
(d) Individuality.

3. What role does reception theory examine?
(a) The author's role.
(b) The reader's role.
(c) The critic's role.
(d) The teacher's role.

4. According to Eagleton, Gibbon and the authors of Genesis share what in common?
(a) They both thought they were writing historical truth, but are read as fact by some and fiction by others.
(b) Both wrote fiction that is read as fact by some and fiction by others.
(c) Both wrote fiction that is read as historical fact.
(d) Both wrote historical truth that is read as fiction.

5. For Roland Barthes, what kind of literature attempts to conceal the constructed nature of language?
(a) Realist.
(b) Post-structuralist.
(c) Fantasy.
(d) Feminist.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Eagleton, eighteenth-century literature embodied more than social values, it also was an instrument for what?

2. According to Eagleton, "the meaning of a sign is a matter of what the sign is _____."

3. When did Sigmund Freud develop psychoanalysis?

4. According to Eagleton, there are forms of post-structuralism that represent what kind of withdrawal from history?

5. According to the Soviet semiotician Yury Lotman, a poetic text is "semantically _________."

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