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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, formalism is the application of what to the study of literature?
(a) Economics.
(b) Psychology.
(c) Linguistics.
(d) Sociology.

2. For the economist Eagleton discusses, "those economists who dislike theory or claimed to get along better without it" were what?
(a) Didn't understand the importance of theory.
(b) Had no knowledge of any theory.
(c) In the grip of an older theory.
(d) In the grip of the most current theory.

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 producer of commodities who sold their goods for high 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 consumer of commodities who bought their goods for low pay.

4. What genre of writing does Eagleton provide that is an example of writing that is NOT considered to be literature?
(a) Science fiction.
(b) Romance.
(c) Young Adult.
(d) Comics.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What period did our own definition of literature begin to emerge, according to Eagleton?

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

3. According to Eagleton, "theory was a way of _______ literary works from the ________of civilised sensibility'"

4. For the Romantics, why was their vision of a just society was inverted into a nostalgia for an old and "organic" England?

5. According to Eagleton, what idea is "truly elitist" in literary studies?

(see the answer key)

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