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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 silenced the Russian formalists, according to Eagleton?
(a) Liberals.
(b) Socialists.
(c) Stalinists.
(d) Bolsheviks.
2. 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 two signifieds."
(b) "A disproportion between one signifier for every other signified."
(c) "A disproportion between two signifiers."
(d) "A disproportion between signifiers and signifieds."
3. For E.D. Hirsch, the aim of "policing" an author's meaning is to what, according to Eagleton?
(a) Protect her/his "private property."
(b) Sell her/his "private property."
(c) Alter her/his "private property."
(d) Control her/his "private property."
4. In structuralism, the relationship between the sign and what it refers to is what?
(a) Identical.
(b) Arbitrary.
(c) Opposite.
(d) Necessary.
5. How are "writable" texts different from ones that can be read?
(a) Writable texts encourage the reader/critic to become a consumer of the text.
(b) Writable texts encourage the author/writer to become the reader/critic of the text.
(c) Writable texts encourage the author/writer to reject the reader/critic of the text.
(d) Writable texts encourage the reader/critic to become a producer of the text.
Short Answer Questions
1. The English philosopher J. L. Austin saw language as what?
2. Why should politics engage with questions of sexual ideology, according to Eagleton?
3. Eagleton argues that reading literature in a new critical way was a recipe for what?
4. According to Eagleton, the French structural anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss did pioneering work on what?
5. According to Sigmund Freud, what is the process by which human beings cope with desires they cannot fulfill by directing them towards a more socially valued goal?
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