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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 informs the reader that in the early 1980s, two new forms of political/historical criticism emerged, new historicism from ________ and cultural materialism from ________.
(a) France / Germany.
(b) Russia / the United States.
(c) Britain / Russia.
(d) The United States / Britain.

2. What term does the narrator explain was a popular term in deconstructive criticism and literally means an impasse?
(a) Imagism.
(b) Aporia.
(c) Langue.
(d) Parole.

3. Who presented I.A. Richard with the manuscript of the book which was published in 1930 with the title Seven Types of Ambiguity?
(a) Kurt Vonnegut.
(b) George Zebrowski.
(c) William Empson.
(d) Wilfred Owen.

4. Who was appointed Professor at King's College, London in 1840?
(a) J.R.R. Tolkien.
(b) F.D. Maurice.
(c) Nick Hornby.
(d) Frank McCourt.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Jean Baudrillard was associated with what is usually known as ________ according to the narrator.

2. According to the narrator in the Introduction, the ________ probably saw the high-water mark of literary theory.

3. I.A. Richards pioneered the technique called ________ which was also the title of his book in 1929.

4. Sigmund Freud connects infantile sexuality to the ________, in which the male infant conceives the desire to eliminate the father and become the sexual partner of the mother.

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"?

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