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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 literary work in Romantic society is seen as a ________ that is in contrast to the "fragmented individualism" of capitalist society?
(a) Mysterious organic unity.
(b) Mysterious inorganic unity.
(c) Imperious mechanical unity.
(d) Imperious inorganic unity.

2. According to Eagleton, "theory was a way of _______ literary works from the ________of civilised sensibility'"
(a) Excluding; oppression.
(b) Studying; truth.
(c) Dismissing; idea.
(d) Emancipating; stranglehold.

3. According to Eagleton, what happens when literary theory becomes "turgidly unreadable"?
(a) "It is being true to the importance of its form."
(b) "It is being true to its historical roots."
(c) "It is being untrue to its historical roots."
(d) "It is being untrue to the importance of its form."

4. For Eagleton, opposition between "historical" and "artistic" truth does NOT apply to what?
(a) Fairy-tales.
(b) Middle English.
(c) Late Victorian novels.
(d) Early Icelandic sagas.

5. According to Eagleton, the Russian formalist shifted their attention to the "material reality" of what?
(a) The text.
(b) The facts.
(c) The critic.
(d) The fiction.

Short Answer Questions

1. Eagleton argues that reading literature in a new critical way was a recipe for what?

2. For the Romantics, why was their vision of a just society was inverted into a nostalgia for an old and "organic" England?

3. What is the name of the economist Eagleton discusses in his preface?

4. According to Eagleton, "if one were asked to provide a single explanation for the growth of English in the later nineteenth century" what would it be?

5. What date does Eagleton settle on as the "beginnings of the transformation which has taken over literary theory in this century"?

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