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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. What example from the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries does Eagleton provide that was not considered purely factual?
(a) Sermons.
(b) Decrees.
(c) News.
(d) Novels.
2. According to Eagleton, what idea is "truly elitist" in literary studies?
(a) "The idea that works of literature can only be appreciated by those with a particular sort of cultural breeding."
(b) "The idea that literature can only be understood by writers of literature."
(c) "The idea that literature is the only way to understand a particular culture."
(d) "The idea that literature should not be read by those without a higher degree."
3. According to Eagleton, who "harnessed this Romantic humanism to the cause of the working class" in the late nineteenth-century?
(a) Lord Byron.
(b) William Morris.
(c) Samuel Coleridge.
(d) Percy Shelley.
4. According to Eagleton, "theory was a way of _______ literary works from the ________of civilised sensibility'"
(a) Studying; truth.
(b) Excluding; oppression.
(c) Dismissing; idea.
(d) Emancipating; stranglehold.
5. According to Eagleton, what kind of thought does literary education NOT encourage?
(a) Analytical thought.
(b) Creative thought.
(c) Irrational thought.
(d) Rational thought.
Short Answer Questions
1. According to Eagleton, the sentence "this is awfully squiggly handwriting" from Knut Hamsun's "Hunger" tells him its literary because of what reason?
2. For Eagleton, how did the romantics usher a "forestalling of reasoned critical enquiry"?
3. The Russian formalists rejected what kind of doctrines that had influenced literary criticism?
4. The distinction between fact and fiction in defining literature is what?
5. For the Romantics, why was their vision of a just society was inverted into a nostalgia for an old and "organic" England?
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