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

2. According to Eagleton, what is ironic about those who complain of the difficulty of literary theory?
(a) "That those who complain are often uncivilised and uneducated."
(b) "That those who complain would expect to understand a textbook of biology or chemical engineering."
(c) "That those who complain are often civilised and educated."
(d) "That those who complain would not expect to understand a textbook of biology or chemical engineering."

3. 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 producer of commodities who sold their goods for high pay.
(d) Because she or he was seen as a consumer of commodities who bought their goods for low pay.

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

5. Eagleton argues that the criteria for what counted as literature in the eighteenth-century was what?
(a) Religious.
(b) Practical.
(c) Canonical.
(d) Ideological.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is "imaginative" literature or literature that is not necessarily true?

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"?

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

4. For Eagleton, hostility toward theory means what?

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

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