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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. Eagleton's goal in "Literary Theory: An Introduction" is to provide a comprehensive account of literary theory for whom?
(a) Those who have specialised knowledge of literary theory.
(b) Those with little knowledge of literary theory.
(c) Those with extensive knowledge of literary theory.
(d) Those who have some knowledge of literary theory.

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

3. What date does Eagleton settle on as the "beginnings of the transformation which has taken over literary theory in this century"?
(a) 1977.
(b) 1957.
(c) 1917.
(d) 1937.

4. During the 1960s, what kind of students began to enter higher education that broke down assumptions about literary studies?
(a) Students from supposedly "cultivated" backgrounds.
(b) Students from supposedly "uncultivated" backgrounds.
(c) Students from supposedly "third-world" countries.
(d) Students from supposedly "first-world" countries.

5. 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?
(a) One.
(b) Six.
(c) Two.
(d) Five.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do linguists describe the effect of language where "the texture, rhythm and resonance of words are in excess of their abstractable meaning."

2. Who was glad to abandon the "feminine vagaries of literature" in favor of penning war propaganda?

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

4. Who is the key figure in the Victorian period Eagleton cites as "preternaturally aware of the needs of his social class"?

5. According to Eagleton, the Russian formalist shifted their attention to the "material reality" of what?

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