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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, as the first industrialist capitalist nation, England becomes what kind of state?
(a) A perfect state.
(b) A police state.
(c) A wealthy state.
(d) A free state.

2. According to Eagleton, William Empson "insists on treating poetry as a species of ______language."
(a) Religious.
(b) Ordinary.
(c) Secular.
(d) Spectacular.

3. 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"?
(a) Viktor Shklovsky.
(b) Fyodor Dostoevsky.
(c) Alexander Pushkin.
(d) Leo Tolstoy.

4. 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.

5. The Russian formalists rejected what kind of doctrines that had influenced literary criticism?
(a) Quasi-mystical fictional doctrines.
(b) Quasi-mystical symbolist doctrines.
(c) Quasi-mystical religious doctrines.
(d) Quasi-mystical psychoanalytic doctrines.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Eagleton, "In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, the word ______seems to have been used about true and fictional events."

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

3. By the early 1930s, the study of English literature became what kind of pursuit?

4. How many decades, according to Eagleton, has there been a "striking proliferation of literary theory" since the publication of the Russian formalist's pioneering essay?

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

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