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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Russian formalists rejected what kind of doctrines that had influenced literary criticism?
(a) Quasi-mystical religious doctrines.
(b) Quasi-mystical psychoanalytic doctrines.
(c) Quasi-mystical fictional doctrines.
(d) Quasi-mystical symbolist doctrines.

2. According to Eagleton, "if one were asked to provide a single explanation for the growth of English in the later nineteenth century" what would it be?
(a) The failure of government."
(b) The success of government.
(c) The success of religion."
(d) The failure of religion.

3. What does Sigmund Freud see as the "royal road" to the unconscious?
(a) Dreams.
(b) Sex.
(c) Education.
(d) Therapy.

4. What "twin impacts" does Eagleton cite in the mid-Victorian period that was particularly worrisome to the ruling class?
(a) Religious ideology and social change.
(b) Religious ideology and social statis.
(c) Scientific discovery and social change.
(d) Scientific discovery and religious ideology.

5. According to Eagleton, Stanley Fish's model excludes the possibility that there is a ______ of interpretations?
(a) Rejection.
(b) Struggle.
(c) Acceptance.
(d) Dominance.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Eagleton's goal in "Literary Theory: An Introduction" is to provide a comprehensive account of literary theory for whom?

3. What is the name of the critic from the Constance school of reception aesthetics and the author of "The Act of Reading" who Eagleton discusses at length?

4. What are the three points Eagleton notes about the method of structuralism?

5. What is the example Eagleton provides of a metalanguage, where one sign-system denotes another sign-system?

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