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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For Eagleton, opposition between "historical" and "artistic" truth does NOT apply to what?
(a) Late Victorian novels.
(b) Middle English.
(c) Early Icelandic sagas.
(d) Fairy-tales.

2. Eagleton argues that if literature includes much factual writing, it also excludes "quite a lot of" what?
(a) Autobiography.
(b) Nonfiction.
(c) Biography.
(d) Fiction.

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

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

5. What three neurotic symptoms can a person develop that are the result of internal conflict, according to Sigmund Freud?
(a) Obsession, phobia, and depression.
(b) Fatigue, pain, and depression.
(c) Obsession, hysteria, and phobia.
(d) Pain, hysteria, and fatigue.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Eagleton, literature is definable "not according to whether it is fictional or "imaginative," because it uses language in ____ways."

2. What aspect of Jacques Lacan's work is of particular interest to literary theorists?

3. How did post-structuralism respond to France's student movement's failed attempt to break state power?

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

5. What literary movement, according to Eagleton, "brought structuralist and post-structuralist criticism to birth in the first place"?

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