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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 German philosopher Edmund Husserl argued that objects can be regarded as things ______ by consciousness.
(a) Intended.
(b) Realized.
(c) Understood.
(d) Evaluated.
2. What does Sigmund Freud see as the "royal road" to the unconscious?
(a) Sex.
(b) Education.
(c) Therapy.
(d) Dreams.
3. According to Eagleton, why did the Russian formalists NOT see a literary work as a vehicle for ideas, reflection of reality, or transcendental truth?
(a) Because they saw language as obtuse, vague, and ephemeral.
(b) Because they saw language as a mode of speech for the wealthy.
(c) Because they saw language as words and not objects or feelings.
(d) Because they saw language as potentially empowering the masses.
4. 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?
(a) Wolfgang Iser.
(b) Roman Ingarden.
(c) Roland Barthes.
(d) Jean Paul Sartre.
5. The Russian formalists rejected what kind of doctrines that had influenced literary criticism?
(a) Quasi-mystical symbolist doctrines.
(b) Quasi-mystical religious doctrines.
(c) Quasi-mystical fictional doctrines.
(d) Quasi-mystical psychoanalytic doctrines.
Short Answer Questions
1. According to Eagleton, what idea is "truly elitist" in literary studies?
2. Who is the key figure in the Victorian period Eagleton cites as "preternaturally aware of the needs of his social class"?
3. The distinction between fact and fiction in defining literature is what?
4. According to Eagleton, why is E.D. Hirsch able to maintain his view that literary meaning is absolute and resistant to historical change?
5. According to Eagleton, "In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, the word ______seems to have been used about true and fictional events."
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