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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 is a belief in "ultimate word, presence, essence, truth, or reality"?
(a) Logocentric.
(b) Egocentric.
(c) Technocentric.
(d) Phallocentric.

2. Eagleton's goal in "Literary Theory: An Introduction" is to provide a comprehensive account of literary theory for whom?
(a) Those with little knowledge of literary theory.
(b) Those with extensive knowledge of literary theory.
(c) Those who have some knowledge of literary theory.
(d) Those who have specialised knowledge of literary theory.

3. According to Eagleton, the "very meaning of _______, ________ and _________ has undergone deep alteration."
(a) Power; authority; freedom.
(b) Film; viewing; education.
(c) Art; theory; practise.
(d) Literature; reading; criticism.

4. According to Eagleton, why is E.D. Hirsch able to maintain his view that literary meaning is absolute and resistant to historical change?
(a) Because meaning is viewed as pre-historic.
(b) Because meaning is viewed as pre-linguistic.
(c) Because meaning is viewed as pre-arranged.
(d) Because meaning is viewed as pre-modern.

5. What word does Eagleton discuss that is both a descriptive term to mean "literally untrue" as well as an evaluative term to mean "visionary" or "inventive"?
(a) Unimaginative.
(b) Unrealistic.
(c) Idealistic.
(d) Imaginative.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the Yale theorist who believed that all language is metaphorical?

2. What is the difference between metaphor and metonymy?

3. 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?

4. According to Eagleton, why did the Russian formalists NOT see a literary work as a vehicle for ideas, reflection of reality, or transcendental truth?

5. Eagleton writes that "New Criticism was the ideology of an ________, _______intelligentsia who reinvented in literature what they could not locate in reality."

(see the answer key)

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