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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Psychoanalysis.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The English philosopher J. L. Austin saw language as what?
(a) Penultimate.
(b) Pejorative.
(c) Progressive.
(d) Performative.

2. 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?
(a) The success of religion."
(b) The failure of religion.
(c) The failure of government."
(d) The success of government.

3. 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) Idealistic.
(c) Unrealistic.
(d) Imaginative.

4. What is the example Eagleton provides of a metalanguage, where one sign-system denotes another sign-system?
(a) The relation between philosophy and religion.
(b) The relation between philosophy and literature.
(c) The relation between literary criticism and religion.
(d) The relation between literary criticism and literature.

5. The distinction between fact and fiction in defining literature is what?
(a) Questionable.
(b) Important.
(c) Complicated.
(d) Difficult.

Short Answer Questions

1. In psychoanalytic treatment, what happens during transference?

2. According to Eagleton, the subject in phenomenology was the source of all what?

3. According to Eagleton, what kind of thought does literary education NOT encourage?

4. What are the three points Eagleton notes about the method of structuralism?

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

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