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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, why did the Russian formalists NOT see a literary work as a vehicle for ideas, reflection of reality, or transcendental truth?
(a) Because they saw language as words and not objects or feelings.
(b) Because they saw language as obtuse, vague, and ephemeral.
(c) Because they saw language as a mode of speech for the wealthy.
(d) Because they saw language as potentially empowering the masses.

2. According to Eagleton, the Russian formalist shifted their attention to the "material reality" of what?
(a) The critic.
(b) The text.
(c) The fiction.
(d) The facts.

3. The English philosopher J. L. Austin saw language as what?
(a) Penultimate.
(b) Performative.
(c) Pejorative.
(d) Progressive.

4. What kind of language does Eagleton say people think of literature as?
(a) Dull.
(b) Strange.
(c) Difficult.
(d) Ordinary.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Eagleton, the "very meaning of _______, ________ and _________ has undergone deep alteration."

2. From the viewpoint of Roland Barthes, Eagleton argues that "reading is less like a _______ than a _________."

3. Who is the founder of modern structural linguistics?

4. What is the German word for how reality is not objective, but experienced and organized by an individual subject?

5. According to Eagleton, William Empson "insists on treating poetry as a species of ______language."

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