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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, how did the romantics usher a "forestalling of reasoned critical enquiry"?
(a) Because the word was seen as a refleciton of religious truths that you either saw or didn't see.
(b) Because the symbol was regarded as an absolute spiritual truth that you either saw or didn't see.
(c) Because the text was regarded as a reflection of society that you either saw or didn't see.
(d) Because the image was seen as material reality that you saw immediately.

2. According to Eagleton, as the first industrialist capitalist nation, England becomes what kind of state?
(a) A perfect state.
(b) A free state.
(c) A police state.
(d) A wealthy state.

3. According to Eagleton, "Literary Theory: An Introduction" has managed to reach readers beyond __________.
(a) Historians.
(b) Literature.
(c) Students.
(d) Academia.

4. 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 content.
(c) The ideas.
(d) The facts.

5. What "twin impacts" does Eagleton cite in the mid-Victorian period that was particularly worrisome to the ruling class?
(a) Scientific discovery and religious ideology.
(b) Religious ideology and social change.
(c) Religious ideology and social statis.
(d) Scientific discovery and social change.

Short Answer 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?

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

3. For the economist Eagleton discusses, "those economists who dislike theory or claimed to get along better without it" were what?

4. According to the Russian critic Roman Jakobson, literature represents "organized ______committed on ordinary _______."

5. According to Eagleton, the "very meaning of _______, ________ and _________ has undergone deep alteration."

(see the answer key)

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