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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Psychoanalysis.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. According to Eagleton, the Western philosophical tradition has "consistently vilified" what?
(a) Myth.
(b) Writing.
(c) Speech.
(d) Man.
2. Jacques Lacan argues that like _______ desire emerges from a lack, which it strives to fulfill.
(a) Identity.
(b) Myth.
(c) Faith.
(d) Language.
3. According to Eagleton, who would an ideal reader be for a structuralist?
(a) Someone who had all the codes at her or his disposal.
(b) Someone who didn't have any codes at her or his disposal.
(c) Someone who had intelligent codes at her or his disposal.
(d) Someone who had the right codes at her or his disposal.
4. The German philosopher Edmund Husserl argued that objects can be regarded as things ______ by consciousness.
(a) Realized.
(b) Evaluated.
(c) Intended.
(d) Understood.
5. According to Eagleton, what is ironic about those who complain of the difficulty of literary theory?
(a) "That those who complain would expect to understand a textbook of biology or chemical engineering."
(b) "That those who complain are often uncivilised and uneducated."
(c) "That those who complain would not expect to understand a textbook of biology or chemical engineering."
(d) "That those who complain are often civilised and educated."
Short Answer Questions
1. According to Eagleton, why is E.D. Hirsch able to maintain his view that literary meaning is absolute and resistant to historical change?
2. In structuralism, the relationship between the sign and what it refers to is what?
3. The distinction between fact and fiction in defining literature is what?
4. How many decades, according to Eagleton, has there been a "striking proliferation of literary theory" since the publication of the Russian formalist's pioneering essay?
5. What is the name of the author whose story "Sarrasine" Roland Barthes examines in "S/Z"?
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