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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does the narrator say was the founder of a method of studying English which is still the norm today?
(a) Ralph Waldo Emerson.
(b) I.A. Richards.
(c) Samuel Langhorne Clemens.
(d) T.S. Eliot.

2. What was another name for the semic code found within the chapter titled Structuralism?
(a) Connotative code.
(b) Universals.
(c) Syntax.
(d) Tel Quel group.

3. The narrator explains in the Introduction that the emphasis on practice means that this is what form of book?
(a) Manuscript.
(b) E-book.
(c) Work book.
(d) Missal.

4. 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.
(a) Disunity.
(b) Indeterminacy.
(c) Genre.
(d) Discourse.

5. 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?
(a) Virginia Woolf.
(b) Gertrude Stein.
(c) T.S. Eliot.
(d) John Milton.

Short Answer Questions

1. The chapter "Psychoanalytic Criticism" states that ________ is the notion that sexuality begins not at puberty, with physical maturing, but in infancy, especially through the infant's relationship with the mother.

2. Which of the following term best can be defined as one in which we cannot know where we are, since all the concepts which previously defined the center, and hence also the margins, have been "deconstructed," or undermined?

3. What term is used in the Introduction means not politically radical, and hence generally evasive and non-committal on political issues?

4. 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"?

5. According to the narrator in the chapter "Psychoanalytic Criticism," who did Sigmund Freud link the situation of Hamlet in the play to?

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