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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, if structuralism examined the "product" of literature, but left out what?
(a) The material conditions that destroyed literature.
(b) The immaterial conditions that produced literature.
(c) The immaterial conditions inherent in the product.
(d) The material conditions that produced literature.
2. According to Eagleton, structuralism is a ________of inquiry whereas semiotics is a ______ of study.
(a) Method; field.
(b) Field; type.
(c) Manner; field.
(d) Type; manner.
3. Eagleton argues that reading literature in a new critical way was a recipe for what?
(a) Political inertia.
(b) Political progress.
(c) Political consciousness.
(d) Political ambition.
4. What does Sigmund Freud call the first stage of sexual life?
(a) The erogenous stage.
(b) The anal stage.
(c) The oral stage.
(d) The phallic stage.
5. According to Eagleton, why did the women's movement reject the economic focus of classical Marxist thought?
(a) Because it failed to place material conditions over sexual ideology at the heart of its theory and practice.
(b) Because it placed sexual ideology over the material conditions at the heart of its theory and practice.
(c) Because it succeeded in placing sexual ideology at the heart of its theory and practice.
(d) Because it failed to place sexual ideology at the heart of its theory and practice.
Short Answer Questions
1. According to Eagleton, the literary work in Romantic society is seen as a ________ that is in contrast to the "fragmented individualism" of capitalist society?
2. According to Sigmund Freud, what distinguishes humans from other animals?
3. Jacques Lacan argues that like _______ desire emerges from a lack, which it strives to fulfill.
4. According to Eagleton, William Empson "insists on treating poetry as a species of ______language."
5. Why is the example Eagleton gives of the sign in the London Underground system that "dogs must be carried on the escalator" a case of estrangement?
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