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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Conclusion, Political Criticism.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Eagleton, why is Sigmund Freud's discussion of women problematic?
(a) Because of his troubling personal relationships.
(b) Because of his sexist and demeaning attitudes toward women.
(c) Because of his refusal to discuss women in his work.
(d) Because of his glorification of men in his work.

2. What does Sigmund Freud call the first stage of sexual life?
(a) The oral stage.
(b) The erogenous stage.
(c) The phallic stage.
(d) The anal stage.

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

4. Eagleton argues that for Stanley Fish, what a text "does" to us is a matter of what we do to what?
(a) To the author.
(b) To the critic.
(c) To the text.
(d) To the reader.

5. When did Sigmund Freud develop psychoanalysis?
(a) Mid-twentieth century.
(b) Late-nineteenth century.
(c) Mid-nineteenth century.
(d) Late-twentieth century.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Eagleton, what is ironic about those who complain of the difficulty of literary theory?

2. What is a belief in "ultimate word, presence, essence, truth, or reality"?

3. Eagleton writes that "New Criticism was the ideology of an ________, _______intelligentsia who reinvented in literature what they could not locate in reality."

4. According to Eagleton, literary theorists "are not so much ______of doctrine as ________of a discourse."

5. What year did Terry Eagleton's "Literary Theory: An Introduction" first appear?

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