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

2. What period did our own definition of literature begin to emerge, according to Eagleton?
(a) Enlightenment period.
(b) Modernist period.
(c) Romantic period.
(d) Victorian period.

3. According to Eagleton, eighteenth-century literature embodied more than social values, it also was an instrument for what?
(a) Entrenchment and dissemination.
(b) Violence and abdication.
(c) Religion and redemption.
(d) Education and oppression.

4. 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) Idealistic.
(b) Unimaginative.
(c) Unrealistic.
(d) Imaginative.

5. According to Eagleton, "properly understood, literary theory is shaped by a ______impulse rather than an _______one."
(a) Cultivated; uncultivated.
(b) Different; indifferent.
(c) Popular; unpopular.
(d) Democratic; elitist.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Viktor Shklovsky, what novel was "the most typical novel in world literature" because it impeded its own story-line so that it never gets off the ground?

2. Eagleton argues that a literary work in Romantic society becomes what rather than rational and mechanical?

3. According to Eagleton, what becomes the "panacea for all problems" as part of the romantics' aesthetic theory at the turn of the eighteenth century?

4. According to Eagleton, the Russian formalist shifted their attention to the "material reality" of what?

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

(see the answer key)

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