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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What language does the narrator describe as being a Romance language that takes most of its words directly from Latin, and lacks the reassuring Anglo-Saxon layer of vocabulary?
(a) English.
(b) German.
(c) French.
(d) Spanish.

2. 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 is taught.
(c) The way theory is written.
(d) The way theory was created.

3. ________ was probably the most influential figure in twentieth-century British criticism according to author Peter Barry.
(a) Douglas Adams.
(b) F.R. Leavis.
(c) Edward Jablonski.
(d) Patrick Tilley.

4. Sigmund Freud connects infantile sexuality to the ________, in which the male infant conceives the desire to eliminate the father and become the sexual partner of the mother.
(a) Oedipus complex.
(b) Aphrodite complex.
(c) Hamlet complex.
(d) Othello complex.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

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. Which of F.R. Leavis's teachings was essentially a syllabus, manageable within a year-long undergraduate course?

4. What is the name given to the movement that dominates the arts and culture of the first half of the twentieth century?

5. The narrator states that the study of English literature was seen as a kind of substitute for ________.

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