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

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

3. What date does Eagleton settle on as the "beginnings of the transformation which has taken over literary theory in this century"?
(a) 1957.
(b) 1937.
(c) 1977.
(d) 1917.

4. According to Eagleton, William Empson "insists on treating poetry as a species of ______language."
(a) Secular.
(b) Religious.
(c) Ordinary.
(d) Spectacular.

5. According to Viktor Shklovsky, what novel was "the most typical novel in world literature" because it impeded its own story-line so that it never gets off the ground?
(a) "Don Quixote."
(b) "History of the Rebellion."
(c) "Tristram Shandy."
(d) "Animal Farm."

Short Answer Questions

1. What person is NOT included in the ranks of Russian formalists?

2. Eagleton argues that the criteria for what counted as literature in the eighteenth-century was what?

3. According to Eagleton, eighteenth-century literature embodied more than social values, it also was an instrument for what?

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

5. Why is the example Eagleton gives of the sign in the London Underground system that "dogs must be carried on the escalator" a case of estrangement?

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