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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Eagleton argues that if literature includes much factual writing, it also excludes "quite a lot of" what?
(a) Autobiography.
(b) Nonfiction.
(c) Fiction.
(d) Biography.

2. What are the three points Eagleton notes about the method of structuralism?
(a) It is idealistic not rational; it doesn't understand the obvious meaning of the text; and the narrative content is its meaning.
(b) It is analytic not evaluative; it refuses obvious meaning of the text; and the content of the narrative is its structure.
(c) It is evaluative not analytic; it refuses obvious meaning of the text; and the narrative content is its meaning.
(d) It is rational not idealistic; it accepts the obvious meaning of the text; and the content of the narrative is its structure.

3. What is the name Edmund Husserl gave to his philosophical method?
(a) Hermeneutics.
(b) Reception theory.
(c) Phenomenology.
(d) New criticism.

4. What is the German word for how reality is not objective, but experienced and organized by an individual subject?
(a) Lebenswelt.
(b) Bildungsroman.
(c) Vorgeschichte.
(d) Wendepunkt.

5. According to Eagleton, "if one were asked to provide a single explanation for the growth of English in the later nineteenth century" what would it be?
(a) The failure of government."
(b) The success of government.
(c) The success of religion."
(d) The failure of religion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What text did Tzvetan Todorov attempt a grammatical analysis of so that the characters were nouns, their attributes adjectives, and actions verbs?

2. According to Sigmund Freud, what distinguishes humans from other animals?

3. According to Eagleton, as the first industrialist capitalist nation, England becomes what kind of state?

4. Who is the key figure in the Victorian period Eagleton cites as "preternaturally aware of the needs of his social class"?

5. According to Eagleton, if structuralism examined the "product" of literature, but left out what?

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