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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 the Russian critic Roman Jakobson, literature represents "organized ______committed on ordinary _______."
(a) Protest; speech.
(b) Violence; people.
(c) Religion; writing.
(d) Violence; speech.

2. According to Eagleton, "In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, the word ______seems to have been used about true and fictional events."
(a) Theory.
(b) News.
(c) Novel.
(d) Memoir.

3. What is the name of the pioneering essay the Russian formalist wrote that is the "beginnings of the transformation which has taken over literary theory in this century"?
(a) Theory as Practise.
(b) Film as Thought.
(c) Literature as Image.
(d) Art as Device.

4. The Russian formalists rejected what kind of doctrines that had influenced literary criticism?
(a) Quasi-mystical fictional doctrines.
(b) Quasi-mystical symbolist doctrines.
(c) Quasi-mystical religious doctrines.
(d) Quasi-mystical psychoanalytic doctrines.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do linguists describe the effect of language where "the texture, rhythm and resonance of words are in excess of their abstractable meaning."

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

3. According to Eagleton, what does his book try to demonstrate about a body of literary theory?

4. According to Eagleton, "theory was a way of _______ literary works from the ________of civilised sensibility'"

5. According to Eagleton, what kind of thought does literary education NOT encourage?

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