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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whom does author Peter Barry say was a French psychoanalyst whose work had an extraordinary influence upon many aspects of recent literary theory and who began his career by taking a medical degree and then training in psychiatry in the 1920s?
(a) Marcus Tullius Cicero.
(b) John Maynard Keynes.
(c) Jacques Lacan.
(d) Euripides.

2. According to the chapter titled Post-Structuralism and Deconstruction, structuralism derives ultimately from ________.
(a) Mimesis.
(b) Linguistics.
(c) Hermeneutics.
(d) Formalism.

3. The chapter titled "Postmodernism" states the term "postmodernism" was used in the 1930s, but its current sense and vogue can be said to have begun with ________'s "The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge."
(a) Mies van der Rohe.
(b) Jean-Francois Lyotard.
(c) Jean Baudrillard.
(d) L.S. Lowry.

4. Whom does Peter Barry credit for being the first person and anthropologist to use structuralism in their work?
(a) W.B. Yeats.
(b) Alfred Tennyson.
(c) Claude Levi-Strauss.
(d) F. Scott Fitzgerald.

5. Who was the major theorist of postmodernism and French writer of the book "Simulations"?
(a) Jean-Francois Lyotard.
(b) Andre Gide.
(c) Jean Baudrillard.
(d) Stephane Mallarme.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the chapter titled Theory Before Theory--Liberal Humanism, structuralism and post-structuralism originated in what country?

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

3. 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"?

4. Lacan argues that the two "dream work" mechanisms identified by Freud correspond to the basic poles of language, identified by the linguist Roman Jakobson, to ________ and ________.

5. Who was credited as being a key figure in the development of modern approaches to language study in the chapter titled Structuralism?

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