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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 many decades, according to Eagleton, has there been a "striking proliferation of literary theory" since the publication of the Russian formalist's pioneering essay?
(a) Six.
(b) One.
(c) Two.
(d) Five.

2. According to Eagleton, the Russian formalist shifted their attention to the "material reality" of what?
(a) The facts.
(b) The text.
(c) The fiction.
(d) The critic.

3. In structuralism, the relationship between the sign and what it refers to is what?
(a) Identical.
(b) Arbitrary.
(c) Opposite.
(d) Necessary.

4. What word does Eagleton discuss that is both a descriptive term to mean "literally untrue" as well as an evaluative term to mean "visionary" or "inventive"?
(a) Idealistic.
(b) Unrealistic.
(c) Unimaginative.
(d) Imaginative.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Eagleton, one of the gains of structuralism is that it represents a "remorseless _____of literature."

2. According to Eagleton, structuralism maintains that "individual units of any system have meaning only by virtue of" what?

3. Eagleton provides the analogy of finding a "scrap of writing from a long-vanished civilization" to make what point about deciphering its meaning?

4. According to Eagleton, the sentence "this is awfully squiggly handwriting" from Knut Hamsun's "Hunger" tells him its literary because of what reason?

5. For Eagleton, Gadamer's theory only holds if one makes what "enormous assumption"?

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