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

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

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

4. According to Eagleton, what does his book try to demonstrate about a body of literary theory?
(a) That there are several bodies of literary theory that spring from and is applicable to literature alone.
(b) That there is no body of literary theory that springs from or is applicable to literature alone.
(c) That there is one body of literary theory that springs from and is applicable to literature alone.
(d) That there is sometimes a body of literary theory that springs from and is applicable to literature alone.

5. What example from the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries does Eagleton provide that was not considered purely factual?
(a) Sermons.
(b) Novels.
(c) Decrees.
(d) News.

Short Answer Questions

1. What person is NOT included in the ranks of Russian formalists?

2. According to Eagleton, the sentence "this is awfully squiggly handwriting" from Knut Hamsun's "Hunger" tells him its literary because of what reason?

3. Eagleton writes that "New Criticism was the ideology of an ________, _______intelligentsia who reinvented in literature what they could not locate in reality."

4. According to Eagleton, what is ironic about those who complain of the difficulty of literary theory?

5. For Eagleton, hostility toward theory means what?

(see the answer key)

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