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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Psychoanalytic criticism.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. The notion of the ________, posited by Levi-Strauss, denoting the minimal units of narrative "sense," is formed on the analogy of the morpheme, which, in linguistics, is the ________ unit of grammatical sense.
(a) mytheme / smallest.
(b) Bliss / largest.
(c) Rhetoric / moderate.
(d) Semantics / largest.
2. According to the narrator in the chapter "Psychoanalytic Criticism," who did Sigmund Freud link the situation of Hamlet in the play to?
(a) Shakespeare.
(b) Zeus.
(c) Oedipus.
(d) God.
3. In the chapter titled Structuralism, the narrator explains that ________ applied the structuralism method to the general field of modern culture.
(a) Isaac Newton.
(b) Roland Barthes.
(c) Friedrich Nietzsche.
(d) Edgar Allan Poe.
4. All of the following religious believers were not allowed to attend university in England in the nineteenth century except which one?
(a) Jewish.
(b) Anglican.
(c) Atheist.
(d) Catholic.
5. The Introduction states that another name for traditional literary criticism is ________.
(a) Liberal humanism.
(b) Independant humanism.
(c) Conservative humanism.
(d) Modern humanism.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the name of the early nineteenth-century American writer who received considerable attention from both structuralists and post-structuralists?
2. According to the chapter titled Structuralism, what is another term for "alba," the poetic form dating from the twelfth century in which lovers lament the approach of daybreak?
3. ________ is defined as a discipline which has always tended to emphasize the difficulty of achieving secure knowledge about things.
4. What was the name of the American literature lecturer mentioned in the Introduction who died in January of 1995?
5. Who was the first critic to develop a "reader-centered" approach to literature?
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