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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, formalism is the application of what to the study of literature?
(a) Economics.
(b) Sociology.
(c) Psychology.
(d) Linguistics.

2. According to Eagleton, "Literary Theory: An Introduction" has managed to reach readers beyond __________.
(a) Literature.
(b) Students.
(c) Academia.
(d) Historians.

3. 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) Imperious mechanical unity.
(b) Imperious inorganic unity.
(c) Mysterious inorganic unity.
(d) Mysterious organic unity.

4. Who silenced the Russian formalists, according to Eagleton?
(a) Liberals.
(b) Stalinists.
(c) Socialists.
(d) Bolsheviks.

5. 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"?
(a) Leo Tolstoy.
(b) Alexander Pushkin.
(c) Fyodor Dostoevsky.
(d) Viktor Shklovsky.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Eagleton, "In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, the word ______seems to have been used about true and fictional events."

2. What period did our own definition of literature begin to emerge, according to Eagleton?

3. Eagleton's goal in "Literary Theory: An Introduction" is to provide a comprehensive account of literary theory for whom?

4. According to Eagleton, why did the Russian formalists NOT see a literary work as a vehicle for ideas, reflection of reality, or transcendental truth?

5. According to Eagleton, who "harnessed this Romantic humanism to the cause of the working class" in the late nineteenth-century?

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