Literary Theory: An Introduction Quiz | Eight Week Quiz F

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Literary Theory: An Introduction Quiz | Eight Week Quiz F

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Psychoanalysis.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For Eagleton, hostility toward theory means what?
(a) Acceptance to some people's theories.
(b) Acceptance to some people's theories and protective of one's own.
(c) Opposition to other people's theories.
(d) Opposition to other people's theories and oblivion of one's own.

2. According to Sigmund Freud, what distinguishes humans from other animals?
(a) We experience pain.
(b) We have unfulfilled desires.
(c) We are born helpless and dependent.
(d) We mature early and die later.

3. What text did Tzvetan Todorov attempt a grammatical analysis of so that the characters were nouns, their attributes adjectives, and actions verbs?
(a) Twain's "Tom Sawyer."
(b) Boccaccio's "Decameron."
(c) Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment."
(d) Updike's "Rabbit."

4. Why is the example Eagleton gives of the sign in the London Underground system that "dogs must be carried on the escalator" a case of estrangement?
(a) Because the statement is a directive where people who do not follow are estranged from society.
(b) Because the directive is unambigious and therefore inherently meaningful.
(c) Because of the ambiguities inherent in the statement, which raises questions about its meaning.
(d) Because the language is prosaic and straightforward.

5. The Russian formalists rejected what kind of doctrines that had influenced literary criticism?
(a) Quasi-mystical symbolist doctrines.
(b) Quasi-mystical religious doctrines.
(c) Quasi-mystical psychoanalytic doctrines.
(d) Quasi-mystical fictional doctrines.

Short Answer Questions

1. For Eagleton, how did the romantics usher a "forestalling of reasoned critical enquiry"?

2. According to Eagleton, structuralism maintains that "individual units of any system have meaning only by virtue of" what?

3. What three neurotic symptoms can a person develop that are the result of internal conflict, according to Sigmund Freud?

4. According to Eagleton, structuralism exposed what "shocking truth"?

5. According to Sigmund Freud, what is the name of the complex whereby a child experiences an unconscious desire for sexual union with its same sex parent?

(see the answer key)

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