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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 writes that "New Criticism was the ideology of an ________, _______intelligentsia who reinvented in literature what they could not locate in reality."
(a) Uprooted, defensive.
(b) Educated, grounded.
(c) Apathetic, placid.
(d) Aggressive, violent.

2. Eagleton argues that a literary work in Romantic society becomes what rather than rational and mechanical?
(a) Progressive.
(b) Spontaneous.
(c) Ideological.
(d) Interesting.

3. According to the Russian formalist Osip Brik, Pushkin's "Eugene Onegin" would have been written if Pushkin had what?
(a) Not lived.
(b) Been uneducated.
(c) Died young.
(d) Married early.

4. For Eagleton, how did the romantics usher a "forestalling of reasoned critical enquiry"?
(a) Because the image was seen as material reality that you saw immediately.
(b) Because the symbol was regarded as an absolute spiritual truth that you either saw or didn't see.
(c) Because the text was regarded as a reflection of society that you either saw or didn't see.
(d) Because the word was seen as a refleciton of religious truths that you either saw or didn't see.

5. By the early 1930s, the study of English literature became what kind of pursuit?
(a) A supremel uncivilized pursuit.
(b) A singular openminded pursuit.
(c) A singular narrowminded pursuit.
(d) A supremely civilizing pursuit.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Eagleton, what becomes the "panacea for all problems" as part of the romantics' aesthetic theory at the turn of the eighteenth century?

2. According to the Russian critic Roman Jakobson, literature represents "organized ______committed on ordinary _______."

3. For the economist Eagleton discusses, "those economists who dislike theory or claimed to get along better without it" were what?

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

5. In the eighteenth-century, what was the whole body of writing in society considered, including philosophy, letters, history, poems, and essays?

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