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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. What date does Eagleton settle on as the "beginnings of the transformation which has taken over literary theory in this century"?
(a) 1977.
(b) 1937.
(c) 1917.
(d) 1957.

2. Who silenced the Russian formalists, according to Eagleton?
(a) Bolsheviks.
(b) Liberals.
(c) Socialists.
(d) Stalinists.

3. What kind of language does Eagleton say people think of literature as?
(a) Strange.
(b) Difficult.
(c) Ordinary.
(d) Dull.

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

5. How far has the "theoretical revolution" spread according to Eagleton?
(a) Not beyond the circle of specialists and enthusiasts.
(b) Far beyond the circle of specialists and enthusiasts.
(c) Within the inner circle of critics and readers.
(d) To the outer circle of critics and readers.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Eagleton, formalism is the application of what to the study of literature?

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

4. For Eagleton, hostility toward theory means what?

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

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