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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, why did intellectuals preoccupy themselves with language in the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries?
(a) Because discourse had become irrelevant in industrial society.
(b) Because discourse had become an instrument of opposition in academia.
(c) Because discourse had become degraded to an instrument of industrial capitalism.
(d) Because discourse had become elevated by intellectuals.

2. According to Sigmund Freud, what distinguishes humans from other animals?
(a) We mature early and die later.
(b) We have unfulfilled desires.
(c) We experience pain.
(d) We are born helpless and dependent.

3. Roland Barthes "double" sign is the "grandchild" of what kind of language of the Formalist and Czech structuralists?
(a) Religious.
(b) Temporal.
(c) Estranged.
(d) Unconscious.

4. According to Eagleton, "the meaning of a sign is a matter of what the sign is _____."
(a) Doing.
(b) For.
(c) Signifying.
(d) Not.

5. For Eagleton, E.D. Hirsch attempts to "offer a form of knowledge" that is what?
(a) Titular.
(b) Temporary.
(c) Timeless.
(d) Telling.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the key figure in the Victorian period Eagleton cites as "preternaturally aware of the needs of his social class"?

2. According to Eagleton, why does Northrop Frye emphasize the "utopian root of literature"?

3. From the viewpoint of Roland Barthes, Eagleton argues that "reading is less like a _______ than a _________."

4. According to Jacques Lacan, what is the "symbolic order"?

5. According to Eagleton, what is ironic about those who complain of the difficulty of literary theory?

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