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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. ________ was probably the most influential figure in twentieth-century British criticism according to author Peter Barry.
(a) Patrick Tilley.
(b) F.R. Leavis.
(c) Edward Jablonski.
(d) Douglas Adams.

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

3. All of the following authors were considered some of the literary "high priests" of the modernist movement according to the narrator in the chapter titled "Postmodernism," except for which one?
(a) John Milton.
(b) Virginia Woolf.
(c) T.S. Eliot.
(d) Gertrude Stein.

4. What language does the narrator describe as being a Romance language that takes most of its words directly from Latin, and lacks the reassuring Anglo-Saxon layer of vocabulary?
(a) French.
(b) German.
(c) English.
(d) Spanish.

5. The narrator explains in the chapter "Psychoanalytic Criticism" that distrust of Freud has grown in recent years, partly as a result of his mainly negative views on ________.
(a) Men.
(b) Americans.
(c) Women.
(d) Children.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Peter Barry credit for being the first person and anthropologist to use structuralism in their work?

2. What term is used in the Introduction means not politically radical, and hence generally evasive and non-committal on political issues?

3. In Percy Bysshe Shelley's ________(1821) saw poetry as essentially engaged in what a group of twentieth-century Russian critics later called "defamiliarization."

4. What was another name for the semic code found within the chapter titled Structuralism?

5. ________ is defined as the meanings of words according to Saussure.

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