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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, what is ironic about those who complain of the difficulty of literary theory?
(a) "That those who complain are often civilised and educated."
(b) "That those who complain would expect to understand a textbook of biology or chemical engineering."
(c) "That those who complain would not expect to understand a textbook of biology or chemical engineering."
(d) "That those who complain are often uncivilised and uneducated."

2. The German philosopher Edmund Husserl argued that objects can be regarded as things ______ by consciousness.
(a) Realized.
(b) Intended.
(c) Understood.
(d) Evaluated.

3. According to Eagleton, the "very meaning of _______, ________ and _________ has undergone deep alteration."
(a) Literature; reading; criticism.
(b) Power; authority; freedom.
(c) Film; viewing; education.
(d) Art; theory; practise.

4. According to Eagleton, what kind of thought does literary education NOT encourage?
(a) Irrational thought.
(b) Rational thought.
(c) Analytical thought.
(d) Creative thought.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Eagleton, structuralism has proved that there is nothing _____ about codes.

2. According to Eagleton, what becomes the "panacea for all problems" as part of the romantics' aesthetic theory at the turn of the eighteenth century?

3. According to Viktor Shklovsky, what novel was "the most typical novel in world literature" because it impeded its own story-line so that it never gets off the ground?

4. According to Eagleton, Gibbon and the authors of Genesis share what in common?

5. 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?

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