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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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"?
(a) Essays Ancient and Modern.
(b) The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism.
(c) The Waste Land.
(d) Prufrock and Other Observations.

2. What is the name given to the movement that dominates the arts and culture of the first half of the twentieth century?
(a) Historicism.
(b) Feminism.
(c) Structuralism.
(d) Modernism.

3. The narrator explains that post-structuralism emerged in France in the late ________.
(a) 1960s.
(b) 1970s.
(c) 1930s.
(d) 1990s.

4. 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) Jacques Lacan.
(b) Marcus Tullius Cicero.
(c) Euripides.
(d) John Maynard Keynes.

5. According to the narrator in the chapter "Psychoanalytic Criticism," many of Sigmund Freud's ideas concern aspects of ________.
(a) Conservation.
(b) Death.
(c) Humanity.
(d) Sexuality.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term suggests a range of negative attributes, such as "non-Marxist" and "non-feminist," and "non-theoretical"?

2. 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'"?

3. What does the narrator say the reader will have the most difficulty as the result of what?

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

5. Which modern architect proclaimed that "decoration is a crime" in the chapter titled "Postmodernism"?

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