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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 are Northrop Frye's three recurrent patterns of symbolism in literature?
(a) Analogical, demonic, tragic.
(b) Apocalyptic, demonic, analogical.
(c) Tragic, comic, romantic.
(d) Comic, apocalyptic, romantic.

2. What is the name of the economist Eagleton discusses in his preface?
(a) Adam Smith.
(b) I. Fischer.
(c) J. M. Keynes.
(d) Gordon Tuck.

3. According to Eagleton, the women's movement is not just about women having equal status and power as men, it is what?
(a) The abdication of sex altogether in relations of status and power.
(b) The acceptance of sexual difference in relations of status and power.
(c) The rejection of men's status and power.
(d) The questioning of all status and power.

4. What is the name of the American hermeneuticist E.D. Hirsch Jr.'s famous 1967 book?
(a) "Truth and Fact."
(b) "Being and Time."
(c) "Meaning or Method."
(d) "Validity in Interpretation."

5. According to Eagleton, Stanley Fish's model excludes the possibility that there is a ______ of interpretations?
(a) Rejection.
(b) Dominance.
(c) Acceptance.
(d) Struggle.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Eagleton, literature is definable "not according to whether it is fictional or "imaginative," because it uses language in ____ways."

2. The transition from structuralism to post-structuralism is partly in response to what movement?

3. According to Eagleton, the "very meaning of _______, ________ and _________ has undergone deep alteration."

4. What three sequential stages does Eagleton point out in the development of modern literary theory?

5. According to Eagleton, why is it an illusion to think that he can be present to us in what he says and writes?

(see the answer key)

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