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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Psychoanalysis.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What kind of language does Eagleton say people think of literature as?
(a) Difficult.
(b) Strange.
(c) Dull.
(d) Ordinary.
2. According to Eagleton, why did the women's movement reject the economic focus of classical Marxist thought?
(a) Because it failed to place material conditions over sexual ideology at the heart of its theory and practice.
(b) Because it succeeded in placing sexual ideology at the heart of its theory and practice.
(c) Because it failed to place sexual ideology at the heart of its theory and practice.
(d) Because it placed sexual ideology over the material conditions at the heart of its theory and practice.
3. How did the Romantic artist reflect her or his work in its detachment from history itself?
(a) Because she or he was seen as a major commodity who existed within society.
(b) Because she or he was seen as a minor commodity who existed on the margins of society.
(c) Because she or he was seen as a producer of commodities who sold their goods for high pay.
(d) Because she or he was seen as a consumer of commodities who bought their goods for low pay.
4. During the Romantic period, how is literature more than "idle escapism"?
(a) It is the celebration of totalarian values enforced in English society.
(b) It is the rejection of creative values celebrated in English society.
(c) It is the acceptance of totalarian values rejected in English society.
(d) It is the affirmation of creative values expunged from English society.
5. What person is NOT included in the ranks of Russian formalists?
(a) Boris Tomashevsky.
(b) Roman Jakobson.
(c) Heinrich Wolffin.
(d) Viktor Shklovsky.
Short Answer Questions
1. Eagleton argues that the readership his book has attracted dispels the notion that literary theory is what?
2. How are "writable" texts different from ones that can be read?
3. Eagleton argues that reading literature in a new critical way was a recipe for what?
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?
5. Who was Husserl's most famous pupil who broke with his system of thought?
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