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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How far has the "theoretical revolution" spread according to Eagleton?
(a) Far beyond the circle of specialists and enthusiasts.
(b) Not beyond the circle of specialists and enthusiasts.
(c) Within the inner circle of critics and readers.
(d) To the outer circle of critics and readers.

2. What is the name of the Yale theorist who believed that all language is metaphorical?
(a) Michel Foucault.
(b) Northrop Frye.
(c) Julia Kristeva.
(d) Paul de Man.

3. According to Eagleton, who would an ideal reader be for a structuralist?
(a) Someone who had intelligent codes at her or his disposal.
(b) Someone who had all the 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. According to Eagleton, structuralism is a ________of inquiry whereas semiotics is a ______ of study.
(a) Method; field.
(b) Field; type.
(c) Manner; field.
(d) Type; manner.

5. According to Eagleton, the French structural anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss did pioneering work on what?
(a) Religion.
(b) Language.
(c) Philosophy.
(d) Myth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the difference between metaphor and metonymy?

2. For Eagleton, E.D. Hirsch attempts to "offer a form of knowledge" that is what?

3. According to Eagleton, who "harnessed this Romantic humanism to the cause of the working class" in the late nineteenth-century?

4. Who was Husserl's most famous pupil who broke with his system of thought?

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

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