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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From which of Babara Johnson's literary pieces can the following definition of deconstructive reading be found according to author Peter Barry: "Deconstruction is not synonymous with 'destruction.' It is in fact much closer to the original meaning of the word 'analysis,' which etymologically means 'to undo'"?
(a) Of Grammatology.
(b) The Age of Innocence.
(c) Trustee from the Toolroom.
(d) The Critical Difference.

2. 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) Children.
(c) Americans.
(d) Women.

3. The chapter titled "Psychoanalytic Criticism" discusses the use by the unconscious of these linguistic means of self-expression is part of ________'s evidence for the claim that the unconscious is structured like a language.
(a) Lacan.
(b) Washington.
(c) Barry.
(d) Murray.

4. Who was credited as being a key figure in the development of modern approaches to language study in the chapter titled Structuralism?
(a) Saki.
(b) Thomas de Quincey.
(c) Ferdinand de Saussure.
(d) Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

5. According to Peter Barry in the chapter titled Structuralism, the novel "Middlemarch" is an example of a literary ________.
(a) Icon.
(b) Parole.
(c) Pardigm.
(d) Paradigmatic.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the chapter titled Structuralism, the narrator explains that ________ applied the structuralism method to the general field of modern culture.

2. Which of the following works of T.S. Eliot was a collage of juxtaposed, incomplete stories, or fragments of stories according to the chapter titled "Postmodernism"?

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

4. Who said the following quote found in the chapter titled Theory Before Theory--Liberal Humanism: "We are told that the study of literature 'cultivates the taste, educates the sympathies and enlarges the mind'"?

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

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