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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Psychoanalysis.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote "What is Literature" on literary reception and was published in 1948?
(a) Stanley Fish.
(b) Jean Paul Sartre.
(c) Wolfgang Iser.
(d) Roland Barthes.

2. What is the name of the Russian formalist who published the pioneering essay that is the "beginnings of the transformation which has taken over literary theory in this century"?
(a) Viktor Shklovsky.
(b) Alexander Pushkin.
(c) Fyodor Dostoevsky.
(d) Leo Tolstoy.

3. Who was Husserl's most famous pupil who broke with his system of thought?
(a) Hannah Arendt.
(b) Ayn Rand.
(c) Martin Heidegger.
(d) Walter Benjamin.

4. Eagleton argues that the readership his book has attracted dispels the notion that literary theory is what?
(a) Elitist.
(b) Boring.
(c) Misguided.
(d) Simple.

5. For Roland Barthes, what kind of literature attempts to conceal the constructed nature of language?
(a) Fantasy.
(b) Feminist.
(c) Post-structuralist.
(d) Realist.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a belief in "ultimate word, presence, essence, truth, or reality"?

2. What is "imaginative" literature or literature that is not necessarily true?

3. Eagleton writes that "New Criticism was the ideology of an ________, _______intelligentsia who reinvented in literature what they could not locate in reality."

4. According to Eagleton, why did intellectuals preoccupy themselves with language in the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries?

5. Who is the founder of modern structural linguistics?

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