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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 aspect of Jacques Lacan's work is of particular interest to literary theorists?
(a) Lacan's work on history.
(b) Lacan's work on language.
(c) Lacan's work on women.
(d) Lacan's work on religion.

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

3. Eagleton argues that for Stanley Fish, what a text "does" to us is a matter of what we do to what?
(a) To the author.
(b) To the reader.
(c) To the critic.
(d) To the text.

4. According to the Russian critic Roman Jakobson, literature represents "organized ______committed on ordinary _______."
(a) Violence; speech.
(b) Protest; speech.
(c) Religion; writing.
(d) Violence; people.

5. What novel by John Updike does Eagleton discuss from the position of reception theory?
(a) Of the Farm.
(b) Terrorist.
(c) Rabbit Run.
(d) Couples.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What year did France's student movement strike against the authoritarianism of the educational institutions and in solidarity with the working-class?

3. Why do feminists embrace the work of Jacques Lacan, despite the fact that he was contemptuous of the women's movement?

4. For Eagleton, Gadamer's theory only holds if one makes what "enormous assumption"?

5. According to Eagleton, the Western philosophical tradition has "consistently vilified" what?

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