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

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

3. For the Romantics, why was their vision of a just society was inverted into a nostalgia for an old and "organic" England?
(a) Because their vision of a just society was a corrupted version of industrial capitalism.
(b) Because they refused to give up their privilege as writers in industrial society.
(c) Because they were revolutionaries who were imprisoned in the old system.
(d) Because they lacked the means of transforming industrial capitalism.

4. Literary texts are code-productive, code-transgressive, and code_____.
(a) Affirming.
(b) Confirming.
(c) Saturating.
(d) Orienting.

5. Eagleton argues that the readership his book has attracted dispels the notion that literary theory is what?
(a) Boring.
(b) Misguided.
(c) Elitist.
(d) Simple.

Short Answer Questions

1. What role does reception theory examine?

2. What are Northrop Frye's three recurrent patterns of symbolism in literature?

3. What period did our own definition of literature begin to emerge, according to Eagleton?

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

5. According to Eagleton, there are forms of post-structuralism that represent what kind of withdrawal from history?

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