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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) F.R. Leavis.
(b) Douglas Adams.
(c) Edward Jablonski.
(d) Patrick Tilley.

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) Americans.
(b) Men.
(c) Children.
(d) Women.

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

4. The Introduction states that ________, like novelists, are dauntingly plentiful.
(a) Journalists.
(b) Poets.
(c) Romanticists.
(d) Theorists.

5. What does the narrator say the reader will have the most difficulty as the result of what?
(a) The way theory is told.
(b) The way theory was created.
(c) The way theory is written.
(d) The way theory is taught.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the chapter titled Post-Structuralism and Deconstruction, whose famous remark on philosophy was, "There are no facts, only interpretations"?

2. According to the narrator in the chapter "Psychoanalytic Criticism," many of Sigmund Freud's ideas concern aspects of ________.

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?

4. According to Peter Barry, where does post-structuralism ultimately derive from?

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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