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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. What word does Eagleton discuss that is both a descriptive term to mean "literally untrue" as well as an evaluative term to mean "visionary" or "inventive"?
(a) Unrealistic.
(b) Unimaginative.
(c) Imaginative.
(d) Idealistic.

2. What example from the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries does Eagleton provide that was not considered purely factual?
(a) News.
(b) Decrees.
(c) Sermons.
(d) Novels.

3. According to Eagleton, formalism is the application of what to the study of literature?
(a) Sociology.
(b) Psychology.
(c) Economics.
(d) Linguistics.

4. For Eagleton, opposition between "historical" and "artistic" truth does NOT apply to what?
(a) Late Victorian novels.
(b) Middle English.
(c) Early Icelandic sagas.
(d) Fairy-tales.

5. What year did Terry Eagleton's "Literary Theory: An Introduction" first appear?
(a) 1963.
(b) 1943.
(c) 1993.
(d) 1983.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Eagleton, why did the Russian formalists NOT see a literary work as a vehicle for ideas, reflection of reality, or transcendental truth?

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

3. According to Eagleton, in the romantic aesthetic theory the meaning of the word literature became what?

4. What is the name of the critic from the Constance school of reception aesthetics and the author of "The Act of Reading" who Eagleton discusses at length?

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

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