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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) During the Russian Revolution.
(c) Before the Bolshevik Revolution.
(d) After WWI.

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

3. Eagleton argues that the criteria for what counted as literature in the eighteenth-century was what?
(a) Canonical.
(b) Ideological.
(c) Practical.
(d) Religious.

4. According to the Russian critic Roman Jakobson, literature represents "organized ______committed on ordinary _______."
(a) Violence; speech.
(b) Religion; writing.
(c) Protest; speech.
(d) Violence; people.

5. According to Eagleton, why did the Russian formalists NOT see a literary work as a vehicle for ideas, reflection of reality, or transcendental truth?
(a) Because they saw language as a mode of speech for the wealthy.
(b) Because they saw language as obtuse, vague, and ephemeral.
(c) Because they saw language as potentially empowering the masses.
(d) Because they saw language as words and not objects or feelings.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Eagleton, the approaches outlined in his book have implications where?

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

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

4. 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"?

5. According to Eagleton, literature is definable "not according to whether it is fictional or "imaginative," because it uses language in ____ways."

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