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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, eighteenth-century literature embodied more than social values, it also was an instrument for what?
(a) Education and oppression.
(b) Entrenchment and dissemination.
(c) Violence and abdication.
(d) Religion and redemption.

2. Eagleton provides the analogy of finding a "scrap of writing from a long-vanished civilization" to make what point about deciphering its meaning?
(a) That we would not know whether it was a piece of poetry or ordinary language.
(b) That we would be able to see that poetry didn't exist by looking at its language.
(c) That we would be able to tell that it was a piece of poetry regardless of access to its language.
(d) That we would be able to learn that it was a piece of poetry by looking at the language.

3. The distinction between fact and fiction in defining literature is what?
(a) Difficult.
(b) Important.
(c) Questionable.
(d) Complicated.

4. In the eighteenth-century, what was the whole body of writing in society considered, including philosophy, letters, history, poems, and essays?
(a) Theory.
(b) Canon.
(c) Religion.
(d) Literature.

5. 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 major commodity who existed within society.
(b) Because she or he was seen as a minor commodity who existed on the margins of society.
(c) Because she or he was seen as a consumer of commodities who bought their goods for low pay.
(d) Because she or he was seen as a producer of commodities who sold their goods for high pay.

Short Answer Questions

1. What year did Terry Eagleton's "Literary Theory: An Introduction" first appear?

2. According to Eagleton, the "very meaning of _______, ________ and _________ has undergone deep alteration."

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

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

5. What is the name of the economist Eagleton discusses in his preface?

(see the answer key)

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