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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What year did Terry Eagleton's "Literary Theory: An Introduction" first appear?
(a) 1983.
(b) 1943.
(c) 1963.
(d) 1993.

2. What example from the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries does Eagleton provide that was not considered purely factual?
(a) Novels.
(b) Sermons.
(c) Decrees.
(d) News.

3. 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) Five.
(d) Two.

4. What is the German word for how reality is not objective, but experienced and organized by an individual subject?
(a) Wendepunkt.
(b) Vorgeschichte.
(c) Lebenswelt.
(d) Bildungsroman.

5. According to Eagleton, what happens when literary theory becomes "turgidly unreadable"?
(a) "It is being true to its historical roots."
(b) "It is being true to the importance of its form."
(c) "It is being untrue to the importance of its form."
(d) "It is being untrue to its historical roots."

Short Answer Questions

1. From a structuralist perspective, why could literature could no longer claim to be a unique discourse?

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

3. How did the Romantic artist reflect her or his work in its detachment from history itself?

4. According to Eagleton, "the tactic of _________criticism ... is to show how texts come to embarrass their own ruling systems of logic."

5. For Roland Barthes, what kind of literature attempts to conceal the constructed nature of language?

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