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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 text did Tzvetan Todorov attempt a grammatical analysis of so that the characters were nouns, their attributes adjectives, and actions verbs?
(a) Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment."
(b) Updike's "Rabbit."
(c) Boccaccio's "Decameron."
(d) Twain's "Tom Sawyer."

2. Who wrote "What is Literature" on literary reception and was published in 1948?
(a) Roland Barthes.
(b) Stanley Fish.
(c) Wolfgang Iser.
(d) Jean Paul Sartre.

3. What is "imaginative" literature or literature that is not necessarily true?
(a) Memoir.
(b) Nonfiction.
(c) Fiction.
(d) Biography.

4. What role does reception theory examine?
(a) The reader's role.
(b) The critic's role.
(c) The author's role.
(d) The teacher's role.

5. Eagleton argues that for Stanley Fish, what a text "does" to us is a matter of what we do to what?
(a) To the critic.
(b) To the text.
(c) To the author.
(d) To the reader.

Short Answer Questions

1. What person is NOT included in the ranks of Russian formalists?

2. For the economist Eagleton discusses, "those economists who dislike theory or claimed to get along better without it" were what?

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

4. According to Eagleton, why did intellectuals preoccupy themselves with language in the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries?

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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