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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, Gibbon and the authors of Genesis share what in common?
(a) They both thought they were writing historical truth, but are read as fact by some and fiction by others.
(b) Both wrote fiction that is read as fact by some and fiction by others.
(c) Both wrote historical truth that is read as fiction.
(d) Both wrote fiction that is read as historical fact.
2. Literary texts are code-productive, code-transgressive, and code_____.
(a) Confirming.
(b) Saturating.
(c) Affirming.
(d) Orienting.
3. According to Eagleton, what "staggering fact" could not be put right by a theoretical technique?
(a) There was no time in history where women and men were antagonists.
(b) That there was no time in history where women were not considered superior.
(c) There was no time in history where half of the human race fought for equality.
(d) That there was no time in history where half of the human race was not considered inferior.
4. Eagleton argues that the criteria for what counted as literature in the eighteenth-century was what?
(a) Ideological.
(b) Canonical.
(c) Religious.
(d) Practical.
5. What is NOT a material reality in the oppression of women?
(a) Motherhood.
(b) Equal wages.
(c) Unequal wages.
(d) Job Discrimination.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the name of the Yale theorist who believed that all language is metaphorical?
2. 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?
3. According to Eagleton, the formalists were not out to define literature but they were out to define what?
4. According to Eagleton, why is Sigmund Freud's discussion of women problematic?
5. Who was glad to abandon the "feminine vagaries of literature" in favor of penning war propaganda?
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