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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. David Lodge, Professor of English at Birmingham, combined the ideas of structuralism with more traditional approaches in which one of his books?
(a) Beginning Structuralism.
(b) Beyond Structuralism.
(c) Working with Structuralism.
(d) Transforming Structuralism.

2. Which modern architect proclaimed that "decoration is a crime" in the chapter titled "Postmodernism"?
(a) Le Corbusier.
(b) Kurt Switters.
(c) Adolf Loos.
(d) Samuel Beckett.

3. What term is used in the Introduction means not politically radical, and hence generally evasive and non-committal on political issues?
(a) Liberal.
(b) Socialists.
(c) Communists.
(d) Conservative.

4. What was the term used in the Introduction that is defined as the science of signs?
(a) Semiotics.
(b) Logocentrism.
(c) Phenomenology.
(d) Mimesis.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the American literature lecturer mentioned in the Introduction who died in January of 1995?

2. The narrator explains that the first prestigious name in English writing about literature was that of ________, who wrote his "Apology for Poetry" in about 1580.

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

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

5. 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?

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