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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, the Russian formalist shifted their attention to the "material reality" of what?
(a) The fiction.
(b) The critic.
(c) The text.
(d) The facts.

2. According to Eagleton, when did the Russian formalists emerge?
(a) After WWI.
(b) Before WWII.
(c) Before the Bolshevik Revolution.
(d) During the Russian Revolution.

3. What is "imaginative" literature or literature that is not necessarily true?
(a) Fiction.
(b) Biography.
(c) Nonfiction.
(d) Memoir.

4. 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 consumer of commodities who bought their goods for low pay.
(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 major commodity who existed within society.
(d) Because she or he was seen as a producer of commodities who sold their goods for high pay.

5. Why is the example Eagleton gives of the sign in the London Underground system that "dogs must be carried on the escalator" a case of estrangement?
(a) Because the language is prosaic and straightforward.
(b) Because the statement is a directive where people who do not follow are estranged from society.
(c) Because of the ambiguities inherent in the statement, which raises questions about its meaning.
(d) Because the directive is unambigious and therefore inherently meaningful.

Short Answer Questions

1. The distinction between fact and fiction in defining literature is what?

2. What is the name of the Russian formalist who published the pioneering essay that is the "beginnings of the transformation which has taken over literary theory in this century"?

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

4. Eagleton argues that the criteria for what counted as literature in the eighteenth-century was what?

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?

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