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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who presented I.A. Richard with the manuscript of the book which was published in 1930 with the title Seven Types of Ambiguity?
(a) Kurt Vonnegut.
(b) George Zebrowski.
(c) Wilfred Owen.
(d) William Empson.

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

4. What was the name of the American literature lecturer mentioned in the Introduction who died in January of 1995?
(a) Samuel Jackson.
(b) Charles Devine.
(c) Eric Mottram.
(d) Edward Hardy.

5. In Percy Bysshe Shelley's ________(1821) saw poetry as essentially engaged in what a group of twentieth-century Russian critics later called "defamiliarization."
(a) The Necessity of Atheism.
(b) Queen Mab.
(c) A Defence of Poetry.
(d) Cenci.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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'"?

2. 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.

3. The chapter titled "Postmodernism" states the term "postmodernism" was used in the 1930s, but its current sense and vogue can be said to have begun with ________'s "The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge."

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

5. Peter Barry explains that ________'s most significant thinking was contained in the essays "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time" and "The Study of Poetry."

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