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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, the approaches outlined in his book have implications where?
(a) Well beyond language.
(b) Well beyond feeling.
(c) Well beyond politics.
(d) Well beyond literature.

2. Who was glad to abandon the "feminine vagaries of literature" in favor of penning war propaganda?
(a) Matthew Arnold.
(b) Walter Raleigh.
(c) Lord Byron.
(d) George Gordon.

3. Eagleton argues that reading literature in a new critical way was a recipe for what?
(a) Political consciousness.
(b) Political progress.
(c) Political ambition.
(d) Political inertia.

4. 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 text was regarded as a reflection of society that you either saw or didn't see.
(c) Because the image was seen as material reality that you saw immediately.
(d) Because the symbol was regarded as an absolute spiritual truth that you either saw or didn't see.

5. By the early 1930s, the study of English literature became what kind of pursuit?
(a) A supremel uncivilized pursuit.
(b) A supremely civilizing pursuit.
(c) A singular narrowminded pursuit.
(d) A singular openminded pursuit.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the Russian formalist who published the pioneering essay that is the "beginnings of the transformation which has taken over literary theory in this century"?

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

3. According to Eagleton, what happens when literary theory becomes "turgidly unreadable"?

4. Who is the key figure in the Victorian period Eagleton cites as "preternaturally aware of the needs of his social class"?

5. According to Eagleton, the literary work in Romantic society is seen as a ________ that is in contrast to the "fragmented individualism" of capitalist society?

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