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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 formalists were not out to define literature but they were out to define what?
(a) Literariness.
(b) Inventiveness.
(c) Realism.
(d) Criticism.

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

3. 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 symbol.
(b) The image.
(c) The word.
(d) The text.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the Russian formalist Osip Brik, Pushkin's "Eugene Onegin" would have been written if Pushkin had what?

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

3. The Russian formalists rejected what kind of doctrines that had influenced literary criticism?

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

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

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