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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, there are forms of post-structuralism that represent what kind of withdrawal from history?
(a) Hedonist.
(b) Calm.
(c) Intellectual.
(d) Pragmatic.

2. What is the name of the American hermeneuticist E.D. Hirsch Jr.'s famous 1967 book?
(a) "Being and Time."
(b) "Validity in Interpretation."
(c) "Meaning or Method."
(d) "Truth and Fact."

3. What kind of analysis is phenomenology, according to Eagleton?
(a) Uncritical and non-evaluative.
(b) Critical and discursive.
(c) Discursive and non-evaluative.
(d) Uncritical and discursive.

4. According to Eagleton, in the romantic aesthetic theory the meaning of the word literature became what?
(a) Ideology.
(b) Psychology.
(c) Realism.
(d) Communism.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What text did Tzvetan Todorov attempt a grammatical analysis of so that the characters were nouns, their attributes adjectives, and actions verbs?

2. 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?

3. According to Eagleton, what kind of age do we live in, where "meaning, like everything else, is expected to be instantly consumable"?

4. What are Northrop Frye's three recurrent patterns of symbolism in literature?

5. According to Jacques Lacan, what is the "symbolic order"?

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