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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. During the Romantic period, how is literature more than "idle escapism"?
(a) It is the celebration of totalarian values enforced in English society.
(b) It is the rejection of creative values celebrated in English society.
(c) It is the acceptance of totalarian values rejected in English society.
(d) It is the affirmation of creative values expunged from English society.

2. According to Eagleton, Gibbon and the authors of Genesis share what in common?
(a) Both wrote fiction that is read as fact by some and fiction by others.
(b) Both wrote historical truth that is read as fiction.
(c) Both wrote fiction that is read as historical fact.
(d) They both thought they were writing historical truth, but are read as fact by some and fiction by others.

3. Eagleton's goal in "Literary Theory: An Introduction" is to provide a comprehensive account of literary theory for whom?
(a) Those with little knowledge of literary theory.
(b) Those who have some knowledge of literary theory.
(c) Those who have specialised knowledge of literary theory.
(d) Those with extensive knowledge of literary theory.

4. According to Eagleton, "if one were asked to provide a single explanation for the growth of English in the later nineteenth century" what would it be?
(a) The failure of religion.
(b) The success of government.
(c) The success of religion."
(d) The failure of government."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Eagleton, the formalists were not out to define literature but they were out to define what?

2. During the 1960s, what kind of students began to enter higher education that broke down assumptions about literary studies?

3. According to Eagleton, "theory was a way of _______ literary works from the ________of civilised sensibility'"

4. What genre of writing does Eagleton provide that is an example of writing that is NOT considered to be literature?

5. Who is the key figure in the Victorian period Eagleton cites as "preternaturally aware of the needs of his social class"?

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