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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, "theory was a way of _______ literary works from the ________of civilised sensibility'"
(a) Studying; truth.
(b) Dismissing; idea.
(c) Emancipating; stranglehold.
(d) Excluding; oppression.

2. What person is NOT included in the ranks of Russian formalists?
(a) Heinrich Wolffin.
(b) Viktor Shklovsky.
(c) Boris Tomashevsky.
(d) Roman Jakobson.

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

4. According to Eagleton, the formalists were not out to define literature but they were out to define what?
(a) Realism.
(b) Inventiveness.
(c) Criticism.
(d) Literariness.

5. According to Eagleton, what kind of thought does literary education NOT encourage?
(a) Analytical thought.
(b) Irrational thought.
(c) Creative thought.
(d) Rational thought.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the economist Eagleton discusses in his preface?

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

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

4. 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?

5. According to Eagleton, what idea is "truly elitist" in literary studies?

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