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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, "properly understood, literary theory is shaped by a ______impulse rather than an _______one."
(a) Cultivated; uncultivated.
(b) Democratic; elitist.
(c) Different; indifferent.
(d) Popular; unpopular.

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

3. Who silenced the Russian formalists, according to Eagleton?
(a) Bolsheviks.
(b) Socialists.
(c) Stalinists.
(d) Liberals.

4. What person is NOT included in the ranks of Russian formalists?
(a) Viktor Shklovsky.
(b) Heinrich Wolffin.
(c) Boris Tomashevsky.
(d) Roman Jakobson.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Eagleton, the approaches outlined in his book have implications where?

3. Eagleton argues that the readership his book has attracted dispels the notion that literary theory is what?

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

5. According to Eagleton, the Russian formalist shifted their attention to the "material reality" of what?

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