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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 is it an illusion to think that he can be present to us in what he says and writes?
(a) Because he is no longer present in the world but in some other present in the future.
(b) Because language is only a tool, not something he is made of.
(c) Because the language he uses is not a tool but something he is made of and therefore always divided.
(d) Because he is a concrete entity but language is not.

2. Eagleton writes that "New Criticism was the ideology of an ________, _______intelligentsia who reinvented in literature what they could not locate in reality."
(a) Apathetic, placid.
(b) Uprooted, defensive.
(c) Aggressive, violent.
(d) Educated, grounded.

3. In psychoanalytic treatment, what happens during transference?
(a) The patient "transfers" on to the analyst the conflicts she or he suffers from.
(b) The analyst "transfers" on to the patient the conflicts she or he suffers from.
(c) The analyst "transfers" on to the patient the diagnosis.
(d) The patient "transfers" on to the analyst feelings she or he experiences.

4. Who is the founder of modern structural linguistics?
(a) Roland Barthes.
(b) Northrop Frye.
(c) Ferdinand de Saussure.
(d) Stanley Fish.

5. During the 1960s, what kind of students began to enter higher education that broke down assumptions about literary studies?
(a) Students from supposedly "cultivated" backgrounds.
(b) Students from supposedly "first-world" countries.
(c) Students from supposedly "uncultivated" backgrounds.
(d) Students from supposedly "third-world" countries.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the Russian critic Roman Jakobson, literature represents "organized ______committed on ordinary _______."

2. Who wrote "What is Literature" on literary reception and was published in 1948?

3. What is the name Edmund Husserl gave to his philosophical method?

4. Why should politics engage with questions of sexual ideology, according to Eagleton?

5. What does Jacques Derrida label any thought system which depends on an unassailable foundation?

(see the answer key)

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