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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. For Eagleton, hostility toward theory means what?
(a) Acceptance to some people's theories and protective of one's own.
(b) Opposition to other people's theories and oblivion of one's own.
(c) Opposition to other people's theories.
(d) Acceptance to some people's theories.

2. What is the name of the economist Eagleton discusses in his preface?
(a) I. Fischer.
(b) Adam Smith.
(c) J. M. Keynes.
(d) Gordon Tuck.

3. During the last decades of the eighteenth-century, the word prosaic begins to acquire what a kind of connotation?
(a) A familiar connotation.
(b) A unfamiliar connotation.
(c) A positive connotation.
(d) A negative connotation.

4. Eagleton argues that if literature includes much factual writing, it also excludes "quite a lot of" what?
(a) Fiction.
(b) Autobiography.
(c) Biography.
(d) Nonfiction.

5. According to Eagleton, the "very meaning of _______, ________ and _________ has undergone deep alteration."
(a) Film; viewing; education.
(b) Art; theory; practise.
(c) Literature; reading; criticism.
(d) Power; authority; freedom.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to the Russian formalist Osip Brik, Pushkin's "Eugene Onegin" would have been written if Pushkin had what?

3. During the 1960s, what kind of students began to enter higher education that broke down assumptions about literary studies?

4. Who silenced the Russian formalists, according to Eagleton?

5. According to Eagleton, in the romantic aesthetic theory the meaning of the word literature became what?

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