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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, eighteenth-century literature embodied more than social values, it also was an instrument for what?
(a) Education and oppression.
(b) Entrenchment and dissemination.
(c) Violence and abdication.
(d) Religion and redemption.

2. According to Sigmund Freud, what is the name of the complex whereby a child experiences an unconscious desire for sexual union with its same sex parent?
(a) The Eros complex.
(b) The Oedipus complex.
(c) The Medusa complex.
(d) The Pandora complex.

3. In the eighteenth-century, what was the whole body of writing in society considered, including philosophy, letters, history, poems, and essays?
(a) Canon.
(b) Literature.
(c) Religion.
(d) Theory.

4. What does Sigmund Freud see as the "royal road" to the unconscious?
(a) Sex.
(b) Therapy.
(c) Dreams.
(d) Education.

5. For Eagleton, Gadamer's theory only holds if one makes what "enormous assumption"?
(a) That there are multiple traditions.
(b) That there is a single, mainstream tradition.
(c) That there is a single, mainstream modernity.
(d) That there are multiple modernities.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did post-structuralism respond to France's student movement's failed attempt to break state power?

2. When did Sigmund Freud develop psychoanalysis?

3. What role does reception theory examine?

4. According to the feminist philosopher Julia Kristeva, the language of the semiotic is a means of what?

5. Eagleton's goal in "Literary Theory: An Introduction" is to provide a comprehensive account of literary theory for whom?

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