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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, "Literary Theory: An Introduction" has managed to reach readers beyond __________.
(a) Historians.
(b) Academia.
(c) Students.
(d) Literature.

2. What year did Terry Eagleton's "Literary Theory: An Introduction" first appear?
(a) 1963.
(b) 1983.
(c) 1993.
(d) 1943.

3. Eagleton argues that reading literature in a new critical way was a recipe for what?
(a) Political ambition.
(b) Political progress.
(c) Political consciousness.
(d) Political inertia.

4. What person is NOT included in the ranks of Russian formalists?
(a) Viktor Shklovsky.
(b) Roman Jakobson.
(c) Heinrich Wolffin.
(d) Boris Tomashevsky.

5. Eagleton argues that a literary work in Romantic society becomes what rather than rational and mechanical?
(a) Ideological.
(b) Progressive.
(c) Spontaneous.
(d) Interesting.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Eagleton, "properly understood, literary theory is shaped by a ______impulse rather than an _______one."

2. According to the Russian formalist Osip Brik, Pushkin's "Eugene Onegin" would have been written if Pushkin had what?

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

4. What example from the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries does Eagleton provide that was not considered purely factual?

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

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