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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Psychoanalytic criticism.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator explains in the Introduction that the emphasis on practice means that this is what form of book?
(a) E-book.
(b) Missal.
(c) Manuscript.
(d) Work book.

2. What term is used in the Introduction means not politically radical, and hence generally evasive and non-committal on political issues?
(a) Communists.
(b) Conservative.
(c) Liberal.
(d) Socialists.

3. David Lodge, Professor of English at Birmingham, combined the ideas of structuralism with more traditional approaches in which one of his books?
(a) Transforming Structuralism.
(b) Beginning Structuralism.
(c) Working with Structuralism.
(d) Beyond Structuralism.

4. What was the term used in the Introduction that is defined as the science of signs?
(a) Logocentrism.
(b) Mimesis.
(c) Phenomenology.
(d) Semiotics.

5. Which of the following terms best fit the following definition: "a form of literary criticism which uses some of the techniques of psychoanalysis in the interpretation of literature"?
(a) Applied criticism.
(b) Psychoanalytic criticism.
(c) Practical criticism.
(d) Impressionistic criticism.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Introduction states that ________, like novelists, are dauntingly plentiful.

2. Which modern architect proclaimed that "decoration is a crime" in the chapter titled "Postmodernism"?

3. The narrator informs the reader that in the early 1980s, two new forms of political/historical criticism emerged, new historicism from ________ and cultural materialism from ________.

4. What was the name of the American literature lecturer mentioned in the Introduction who died in January of 1995?

5. In what decade did "postmodernism" become current according to the author?

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