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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 becomes the "panacea for all problems" as part of the romantics' aesthetic theory at the turn of the eighteenth century?
(a) The image.
(b) The symbol.
(c) The text.
(d) The word.

2. According to the Soviet semiotician Yury Lotman, a poetic text is "semantically _________."
(a) Saturated.
(b) Transparent.
(c) Irrational.
(d) Rational.

3. For the economist Eagleton discusses, "those economists who dislike theory or claimed to get along better without it" were what?
(a) In the grip of an older theory.
(b) In the grip of the most current theory.
(c) Didn't understand the importance of theory.
(d) Had no knowledge of any theory.

4. Why is psychosis difficult to cope with, according to Sigmund Freud?
(a) Because the psychotic has lost contact with reality.
(b) Because the psychotic is violent.
(c) Because psychosis is difficult to perceive.
(d) Because psychosis is only treatable with shock therapy.

5. What period did our own definition of literature begin to emerge, according to Eagleton?
(a) Enlightenment period.
(b) Modernist period.
(c) Victorian period.
(d) Romantic period.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why should politics engage with questions of sexual ideology, according to Eagleton?

2. What three neurotic symptoms can a person develop that are the result of internal conflict, according to Sigmund Freud?

3. According to Eagleton, formalism is the application of what to the study of literature?

4. According to Eagleton, why is Hans-Georg Gadamer not concerned about bringing our cultural preconceptions to a literary work?

5. What example from the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries does Eagleton provide that was not considered purely factual?

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