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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the chapter titled Post-Structuralism and Deconstruction, whose famous remark on philosophy was, "There are no facts, only interpretations"?
(a) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(b) Nietzsche.
(c) Ralph Waldo Emerson.
(d) Galileo Galilei.

2. 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) Murray.
(c) Barry.
(d) Washington.

3. According to the narrator in the Introduction, the term "liberal humanism" became current in what decade?
(a) 1910s.
(b) 1920s.
(c) 1970s.
(d) 1930s.

4. Who was the first critic to develop a "reader-centered" approach to literature?
(a) Sigmund Freud.
(b) Plato.
(c) Sophocles.
(d) Aristotle.

5. 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) Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
(c) Ferdinand de Saussure.
(d) Thomas de Quincey.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator explains in the Introduction that the emphasis on practice means that this is what form of book?

2. According to Peter Barry in the chapter titled "Post-Structuralism and Deconstruction," post-structuralist critics seek to show that the text is characterized by ________ rather than unity.

3. Who does the narrator say was the founder of a method of studying English which is still the norm today?

4. ________ is defined as a discipline which has always tended to emphasize the difficulty of achieving secure knowledge about things.

5. What where the only two universities in England in the nineteenth century?

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