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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What three sequential stages does Eagleton point out in the development of modern literary theory?
(a) The preoccupation with the reader, the exclusive concern with the text, and a shift toward the critic.
(b) The preoccupation with the critic, the exclusive concern with the author, and a shift toward the text.
(c) The preoccupation with the author, the exclusive concern with the text, and a shift toward the reader.
(d) The preoccupation with the text, the exclusive concern with the reader, and a shift toward the author.

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

3. Eagleton writes that "New Criticism was the ideology of an ________, _______intelligentsia who reinvented in literature what they could not locate in reality."
(a) Educated, grounded.
(b) Aggressive, violent.
(c) Uprooted, defensive.
(d) Apathetic, placid.

4. Who is the key figure in the Victorian period Eagleton cites as "preternaturally aware of the needs of his social class"?
(a) Matthew Arnold.
(b) Percy Shelley.
(c) George Gordon.
(d) William Morris.

5. According to Eagleton, the women's movement is not just about women having equal status and power as men, it is what?
(a) The acceptance of sexual difference in relations of status and power.
(b) The abdication of sex altogether in relations of status and power.
(c) The questioning of all status and power.
(d) The rejection of men's status and power.

Short Answer Questions

1. The transition from structuralism to post-structuralism is partly in response to what movement?

2. According to the Russian critic Roman Jakobson, literature represents "organized ______committed on ordinary _______."

3. According to Eagleton, "the tactic of _________criticism ... is to show how texts come to embarrass their own ruling systems of logic."

4. According to Eagleton, why did the women's movement reject the economic focus of classical Marxist thought?

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

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