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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. For Eagleton, hostility toward theory means what?
(a) Acceptance to some people's theories and protective of one's own.
(b) Opposition to other people's theories and oblivion of one's own.
(c) Acceptance to some people's theories.
(d) Opposition to other people's theories.

2. What word does Eagleton discuss that is both a descriptive term to mean "literally untrue" as well as an evaluative term to mean "visionary" or "inventive"?
(a) Unimaginative.
(b) Imaginative.
(c) Unrealistic.
(d) Idealistic.

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

4. What example from the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries does Eagleton provide that was not considered purely factual?
(a) Decrees.
(b) Novels.
(c) News.
(d) Sermons.

5. Who is the key figure in the Victorian period Eagleton cites as "preternaturally aware of the needs of his social class"?
(a) George Gordon.
(b) Percy Shelley.
(c) William Morris.
(d) Matthew Arnold.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do linguists describe the effect of language where "the texture, rhythm and resonance of words are in excess of their abstractable meaning."

2. According to Eagleton, what idea is "truly elitist" in literary studies?

3. Eagleton argues that reading literature in a new critical way was a recipe for what?

4. For the Romantics, why was their vision of a just society was inverted into a nostalgia for an old and "organic" England?

5. What "twin impacts" does Eagleton cite in the mid-Victorian period that was particularly worrisome to the ruling class?

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