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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. For Eagleton, hostility toward theory means what?
(a) Opposition to other people's theories and oblivion of one's own.
(b) Acceptance to some people's theories.
(c) Acceptance to some people's theories and protective of one's own.
(d) Opposition to other people's theories.

3. Eagleton writes that "New Criticism was the ideology of an ________, _______intelligentsia who reinvented in literature what they could not locate in reality."
(a) Educated, grounded.
(b) Aggressive, violent.
(c) Uprooted, defensive.
(d) Apathetic, placid.

4. What role does reception theory examine?
(a) The author's role.
(b) The teacher's role.
(c) The critic's role.
(d) The reader's role.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the Romantic artist reflect her or his work in its detachment from history itself?

2. Both F.R. Leavis and Edmund Husserl seek to grasp the thing in itself, or the ______for Husserl and ______for Leavis.

3. What example from the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries does Eagleton provide that was not considered purely factual?

4. According to Eagleton, what kind of age do we live in, where "meaning, like everything else, is expected to be instantly consumable"?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What were the Russian formalists responding to in terms of literary criticism?

2. What is the significance of Viktor Shklovsky's 1917 essay "Art as Device," according to Eagleton?

3. Why does Eagleton call the emergence and development of literary theory a "theoretical revolution" and what does it signify?

4. Why does Eagleton argue that the demarcation between fiction and fact in writing is "questionable"?

5. How does Eagleton define elitism in literary studies and why is it important?

6. In the late-sixteenth and early-seventeenth centuries, what was considered "fact" and what was considered "fiction," and how is it significant?

7. Why is literature an unstable term, according to Eagleton?

8. What period of literature did the critic Roland Barthes focus on and why is it significant?

9. What did the critic E.D. Hirsch, Jr. believe about the reader's relationship to a text?

10. What was the dominant ideology of eighteenth-century England?

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