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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) Matthew Arnold.
(c) George Gordon.
(d) William Morris.

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

3. According to Eagleton, Gibbon and the authors of Genesis share what in common?
(a) Both wrote historical truth that is read as fiction.
(b) Both wrote fiction that is read as fact by some and fiction by others.
(c) They both thought they were writing historical truth, but are read as fact by some and fiction by others.
(d) Both wrote fiction that is read as historical fact.

4. According to Eagleton, who "harnessed this Romantic humanism to the cause of the working class" in the late nineteenth-century?
(a) William Morris.
(b) Lord Byron.
(c) Samuel Coleridge.
(d) Percy Shelley.

5. According to Eagleton, "In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, the word ______seems to have been used about true and fictional events."
(a) Novel.
(b) Theory.
(c) News.
(d) Memoir.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Eagleton, the literary work in Romantic society is seen as a ________ that is in contrast to the "fragmented individualism" of capitalist society?

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

4. During the 1960s, what kind of students began to enter higher education that broke down assumptions about literary studies?

5. What "twin impacts" does Eagleton cite in the mid-Victorian period that was particularly worrisome to the ruling class?

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