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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the narrator in the Introduction, the ________ probably saw the high-water mark of literary theory.
(a) 1960s.
(b) 1980s.
(c) 1990s.
(d) 1970s.

2. Peter Barry examines Sigmund Freud's book ________, which in the chapter "Psychoanalytic Criticism" Barry claims is one of Freud's most enjoyable and accessible publications.
(a) Essentials of Psycho-Analysis The Definitive Collection of Sigmund Freud's Writing.
(b) Character and Culture.
(c) The Psychopathology of Everyday Life.
(d) General Psychological Theory.

3. What does Peter Barry say was the earliest work of theory written by Aristotle?
(a) Politics.
(b) Metaphysics.
(c) Poetics.
(d) Generation of Animals.

4. What example did Saussure use to explain what he meant by saying that there are no intrinsic, fixed meanings in language?
(a) Ulysses.
(b) 8.25 Geneva to Paris.
(c) 1984.
(d) Animal Farm.

5. Which of F.R. Leavis's teachings was essentially a syllabus, manageable within a year-long undergraduate course?
(a) Great Tradition.
(b) Great Explorations.
(c) Great Expectations.
(d) Great American Literature.

Short Answer Questions

1. The chapter "Postmodernism" details that Ezra Pound calls his major work, "The Cantos" a ________.

2. What is the name of the early nineteenth-century American writer who received considerable attention from both structuralists and post-structuralists?

3. 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"?

4. The chapter titled "Psychoanalytic Criticism" discusses the use by the unconscious of these linguistic means of self-expression is part of ________'s evidence for the claim that the unconscious is structured like a language.

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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