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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. According to Eagleton, the approaches outlined in his book have implications where?
(a) Well beyond language.
(b) Well beyond feeling.
(c) Well beyond politics.
(d) Well beyond literature.

2. Who is the key figure in the Victorian period Eagleton cites as "preternaturally aware of the needs of his social class"?
(a) George Gordon.
(b) William Morris.
(c) Matthew Arnold.
(d) Percy Shelley.

3. According to Eagleton, the "very meaning of _______, ________ and _________ has undergone deep alteration."
(a) Film; viewing; education.
(b) Literature; reading; criticism.
(c) Power; authority; freedom.
(d) Art; theory; practise.

4. 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) 1937.
(d) 1917.

5. The distinction between fact and fiction in defining literature is what?
(a) Important.
(b) Complicated.
(c) Questionable.
(d) Difficult.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of analysis is phenomenology, according to Eagleton?

2. What kind of language does Eagleton say people think of literature as?

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

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

5. According to Eagleton, the literary work in Romantic society is seen as a ________ that is in contrast to the "fragmented individualism" of capitalist society?

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