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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, Reception Theory.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why is the example Eagleton gives of the sign in the London Underground system that "dogs must be carried on the escalator" a case of estrangement?
(a) Because of the ambiguities inherent in the statement, which raises questions about its meaning.
(b) Because the language is prosaic and straightforward.
(c) Because the statement is a directive where people who do not follow are estranged from society.
(d) Because the directive is unambigious and therefore inherently meaningful.

3. For the Romantics, why was their vision of a just society was inverted into a nostalgia for an old and "organic" England?
(a) Because they were revolutionaries who were imprisoned in the old system.
(b) Because their vision of a just society was a corrupted version of industrial capitalism.
(c) Because they refused to give up their privilege as writers in industrial society.
(d) Because they lacked the means of transforming industrial capitalism.

4. According to Eagleton, what idea is "truly elitist" in literary studies?
(a) "The idea that works of literature can only be appreciated by those with a particular sort of cultural breeding."
(b) "The idea that literature can only be understood by writers of literature."
(c) "The idea that literature should not be read by those without a higher degree."
(d) "The idea that literature is the only way to understand a particular culture."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Eagleton argues that the readership his book has attracted dispels the notion that literary theory is what?

2. What year did Terry Eagleton's "Literary Theory: An Introduction" first appear?

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

4. How did the Romantic artist reflect her or his work in its detachment from history itself?

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?

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