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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1, Rise of the English.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Eagleton, when did the Russian formalists emerge?
(a) Before WWII.
(b) Before the Bolshevik Revolution.
(c) During the Russian Revolution.
(d) After WWI.

2. Eagleton argues that a literary work in Romantic society becomes what rather than rational and mechanical?
(a) Spontaneous.
(b) Ideological.
(c) Interesting.
(d) Progressive.

3. Eagleton argues that the criteria for what counted as literature in the eighteenth-century was what?
(a) Ideological.
(b) Canonical.
(c) Practical.
(d) Religious.

4. 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 celebration of totalarian values enforced in English society.
(d) It is the affirmation of creative values expunged from English society.

5. According to Eagleton, the sentence "this is awfully squiggly handwriting" from Knut Hamsun's "Hunger" tells him its literary because of what reason?
(a) The context.
(b) The facts.
(c) The ideas.
(d) The content.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Eagleton, William Empson "insists on treating poetry as a species of ______language."

2. By the early 1930s, the study of English literature became what kind of pursuit?

3. What is the name of the economist Eagleton discusses in his preface?

4. Eagleton provides the analogy of finding a "scrap of writing from a long-vanished civilization" to make what point about deciphering its meaning?

5. According to Eagleton, as the first industrialist capitalist nation, England becomes what kind of state?

(see the answer key)

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