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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. How did the Romantic artist reflect her or his work in its detachment from history itself?
(a) Because she or he was seen as a consumer of commodities who bought their goods for low pay.
(b) Because she or he was seen as a producer of commodities who sold their goods for high pay.
(c) Because she or he was seen as a minor commodity who existed on the margins of society.
(d) Because she or he was seen as a major commodity who existed within society.

2. What "twin impacts" does Eagleton cite in the mid-Victorian period that was particularly worrisome to the ruling class?
(a) Religious ideology and social change.
(b) Scientific discovery and social change.
(c) Scientific discovery and religious ideology.
(d) Religious ideology and social statis.

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

4. What is the name of the pioneering essay the Russian formalist wrote that is the "beginnings of the transformation which has taken over literary theory in this century"?
(a) Theory as Practise.
(b) Literature as Image.
(c) Film as Thought.
(d) Art as Device.

5. Eagleton argues that if literature includes much factual writing, it also excludes "quite a lot of" what?
(a) Fiction.
(b) Biography.
(c) Autobiography.
(d) Nonfiction.

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. How many decades, according to Eagleton, has there been a "striking proliferation of literary theory" since the publication of the Russian formalist's pioneering essay?

3. According to Eagleton, literature is definable "not according to whether it is fictional or "imaginative," because it uses language in ____ways."

4. By the early 1930s, the study of English literature became what kind of pursuit?

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

(see the answer key)

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