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

2. What is "imaginative" literature or literature that is not necessarily true?
(a) Biography.
(b) Nonfiction.
(c) Fiction.
(d) Memoir.

3. What is the name of the economist Eagleton discusses in his preface?
(a) Gordon Tuck.
(b) I. Fischer.
(c) Adam Smith.
(d) J. M. Keynes.

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

5. During the last decades of the eighteenth-century, the word prosaic begins to acquire what a kind of connotation?
(a) A familiar connotation.
(b) A negative connotation.
(c) A unfamiliar connotation.
(d) A positive connotation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was glad to abandon the "feminine vagaries of literature" in favor of penning war propaganda?

2. According to Eagleton, when did the Russian formalists emerge?

3. For Eagleton, opposition between "historical" and "artistic" truth does NOT apply to what?

4. According to Eagleton, William Empson "insists on treating poetry as a species of ______language."

5. According to Eagleton, literature is definable "not according to whether it is fictional or "imaginative," because it uses language in ____ways."

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