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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, why did the Russian formalists NOT see a literary work as a vehicle for ideas, reflection of reality, or transcendental truth?
(a) Because they saw language as a mode of speech for the wealthy.
(b) Because they saw language as words and not objects or feelings.
(c) Because they saw language as potentially empowering the masses.
(d) Because they saw language as obtuse, vague, and ephemeral.

2. What year did France's student movement strike against the authoritarianism of the educational institutions and in solidarity with the working-class?
(a) 1958.
(b) 1988.
(c) 1978.
(d) 1968.

3. From a structuralist perspective, why could literature could no longer claim to be a unique discourse?
(a) Because structures could be found in all texts.
(b) Because structures placed a hierarchy on texts other than literature.
(c) Because structures could not be found in literature.
(d) Because structures considered literature a base form of discourse.

4. For Eagleton, hostility toward theory means what?
(a) Opposition to other people's theories.
(b) Opposition to other people's theories and oblivion of one's own.
(c) Acceptance to some people's theories.
(d) Acceptance to some people's theories and protective of one's own.

5. According to Eagleton, "Literary Theory: An Introduction" has managed to reach readers beyond __________.
(a) Academia.
(b) Literature.
(c) Students.
(d) Historians.

Short Answer Questions

1. What "twin impacts" does Eagleton cite in the mid-Victorian period that was particularly worrisome to the ruling class?

2. According to Eagleton, why is Hans-Georg Gadamer not concerned about bringing our cultural preconceptions to a literary work?

3. Eagleton argues that the criteria for what counted as literature in the eighteenth-century was what?

4. According to Eagleton, the literary work in Romantic society is seen as a ________ that is in contrast to the "fragmented individualism" of capitalist society?

5. According to Eagleton, formalism is the application of what to the study of literature?

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