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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 the Soviet semiotician Yury Lotman, a poetic text is "semantically _________."
(a) Saturated.
(b) Rational.
(c) Transparent.
(d) Irrational.

2. What three sequential stages does Eagleton point out in the development of modern literary theory?
(a) The preoccupation with the author, the exclusive concern with the text, and a shift toward the reader.
(b) The preoccupation with the critic, the exclusive concern with the author, and a shift toward the text.
(c) The preoccupation with the reader, the exclusive concern with the text, and a shift toward the critic.
(d) The preoccupation with the text, the exclusive concern with the reader, and a shift toward the author.

3. According to Eagleton, who would an ideal reader be for a structuralist?
(a) Someone who didn't have any codes at her or his disposal.
(b) Someone who had all the codes at her or his disposal.
(c) Someone who had intelligent codes at her or his disposal.
(d) Someone who had the right codes at her or his disposal.

4. According to Jacques Lacan, what stage does a child first develop an ego?
(a) During the imaginary stage.
(b) During the post-Oedipal stage.
(c) During the mirror stage.
(d) During the Oedipal stage.

5. According to Eagleton, who "harnessed this Romantic humanism to the cause of the working class" in the late nineteenth-century?
(a) Percy Shelley.
(b) Samuel Coleridge.
(c) William Morris.
(d) Lord Byron.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sigmund Freud see as the "royal road" to the unconscious?

2. According to Eagleton, "the meaning of a sign is a matter of what the sign is _____."

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

4. According to Eagleton, "theory was a way of _______ literary works from the ________of civilised sensibility'"

5. During the last decades of the eighteenth-century, the word prosaic begins to acquire what a kind of connotation?

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