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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What term suggests a range of negative attributes, such as "non-Marxist" and "non-feminist," and "non-theoretical"?
(a) Modernism.
(b) Humanism.
(c) Dialogism.
(d) Absurdism.

2. Which of the following works did the narrator believe to be the most important Lacanian text for literary students and which was first delivered in 1957 to a "lay" audience of philosophy students?
(a) The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis.
(b) The Signification of the Phallus.
(c) Fetishism: the Symbolic, the Imaginary and the Real.
(d) The Insistence of the Letter.

3. 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.

4. 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) John Milton.
(b) Virginia Woolf.
(c) Gertrude Stein.
(d) T.S. Eliot.

5. In what decade did "postmodernism" become current according to the author?
(a) 1950s.
(b) 1990s.
(c) 1980s.
(d) 1910s.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was another name for the semic code found within the chapter titled Structuralism?

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.

3. Whom does Peter Barry credit for being the first person and anthropologist to use structuralism in their work?

4. 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?

5. Sigmund Freud believed that a ________ was an escape-hatch or safety-valve through which repressed desires, fears, or memories seek an outlet into the conscious mind.

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