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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, "Literary Theory: An Introduction" has managed to reach readers beyond __________.
(a) Historians.
(b) Students.
(c) Academia.
(d) Literature.

2. What is the name of the pioneering essay the Russian formalist wrote that is the "beginnings of the transformation which has taken over literary theory in this century"?
(a) Theory as Practise.
(b) Literature as Image.
(c) Art as Device.
(d) Film as Thought.

3. What are the three points Eagleton notes about the method of structuralism?
(a) It is analytic not evaluative; it refuses obvious meaning of the text; and the content of the narrative is its structure.
(b) It is rational not idealistic; it accepts the obvious meaning of the text; and the content of the narrative is its structure.
(c) It is evaluative not analytic; it refuses obvious meaning of the text; and the narrative content is its meaning.
(d) It is idealistic not rational; it doesn't understand the obvious meaning of the text; and the narrative content is its meaning.

4. How far has the "theoretical revolution" spread according to Eagleton?
(a) Far beyond the circle of specialists and enthusiasts.
(b) To the outer circle of critics and readers.
(c) Not beyond the circle of specialists and enthusiasts.
(d) Within the inner circle of critics and readers.

5. According to Eagleton, "the tactic of _________criticism ... is to show how texts come to embarrass their own ruling systems of logic."
(a) Feminist.
(b) Deconstructive.
(c) Psychoanalytic.
(d) Post-structuralist.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Eagleton, "In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, the word ______seems to have been used about true and fictional events."

2. How do linguists describe the effect of language where "the texture, rhythm and resonance of words are in excess of their abstractable meaning."

3. According to Eagleton, who "harnessed this Romantic humanism to the cause of the working class" in the late nineteenth-century?

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

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

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