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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 did the Romantic artist reflect her or his work in its detachment from history itself?
(a) Because she or he was seen as a minor commodity who existed on the margins of society.
(b) Because she or he was seen as a consumer of commodities who bought their goods for low pay.
(c) Because she or he was seen as a major commodity who existed within society.
(d) Because she or he was seen as a producer of commodities who sold their goods for high pay.

2. During the Romantic period, how is literature more than "idle escapism"?
(a) It is the acceptance of totalarian values rejected in English society.
(b) It is the rejection of creative values celebrated in English society.
(c) It is the affirmation of creative values expunged from English society.
(d) It is the celebration of totalarian values enforced in English society.

3. What literary movement, according to Eagleton, "brought structuralist and post-structuralist criticism to birth in the first place"?
(a) Romanticism.
(b) Post-modernism.
(c) Surrealism.
(d) Modernism.

4. According to the feminist philosopher Julia Kristeva, the language of the semiotic is a means of what?
(a) Understanding the symbolic order.
(b) Undermining the symbolic order.
(c) Affirming the symbolic order.
(d) Reproducing the symbolic order.

5. What three neurotic symptoms can a person develop that are the result of internal conflict, according to Sigmund Freud?
(a) Obsession, hysteria, and phobia.
(b) Obsession, phobia, and depression.
(c) Pain, hysteria, and fatigue.
(d) Fatigue, pain, and depression.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Eagleton, "the meaning of a sign is a matter of what the sign is _____."

2. According to Eagleton, why is Sigmund Freud's discussion of women problematic?

3. According to Eagleton, Stanley Fish's model excludes the possibility that there is a ______ of interpretations?

4. Both F.R. Leavis and Edmund Husserl seek to grasp the thing in itself, or the ______for Husserl and ______for Leavis.

5. How do linguists describe the effect of language where "the texture, rhythm and resonance of words are in excess of their abstractable meaning."

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