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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do linguists describe the effect of language where "the texture, rhythm and resonance of words are in excess of their abstractable meaning."
(a) "A disproportion between one signifier for every other signified."
(b) "A disproportion between two signifieds."
(c) "A disproportion between signifiers and signifieds."
(d) "A disproportion between two signifiers."

2. According to Eagleton, why is Hans-Georg Gadamer not concerned about bringing our cultural preconceptions to a literary work?
(a) Because like the literary work, they come from tradition.
(b) Because unlike the literary work, the come from tradition.
(c) Because like the literary work, they come from modernity.
(d) Because unlike the literary work, they come from modernity.

3. Why do feminists embrace the work of Jacques Lacan, despite the fact that he was contemptuous of the women's movement?
(a) Because Lacan rejected Freudianism.
(b) Because Lacan rewrote Freudianism.
(c) Because Lacan embraced Freudianism.
(d) Because Lacan taught Freudianism.

4. According to Eagleton, what happens when literary theory becomes "turgidly unreadable"?
(a) "It is being true to its historical roots."
(b) "It is being untrue to its historical roots."
(c) "It is being true to the importance of its form."
(d) "It is being untrue to the importance of its form."

5. Who silenced the Russian formalists, according to Eagleton?
(a) Bolsheviks.
(b) Liberals.
(c) Stalinists.
(d) Socialists.

Short Answer Questions

1. Both F.R. Leavis and Edmund Husserl seek to grasp the thing in itself, or the ______for Husserl and ______for Leavis.

2. According to Eagleton, structuralism has proved that there is nothing _____ about codes.

3. Why is the example Eagleton gives of the sign in the London Underground system that "dogs must be carried on the escalator" a case of estrangement?

4. What is the name of the author whose story "Sarrasine" Roland Barthes examines in "S/Z"?

5. For Roland Barthes, what kind of literature attempts to conceal the constructed nature of language?

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