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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Structuralism and Semiotics.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The distinction between fact and fiction in defining literature is what?
(a) Complicated.
(b) Difficult.
(c) Questionable.
(d) Important.

2. 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.

3. Eagleton argues that the readership his book has attracted dispels the notion that literary theory is what?
(a) Misguided.
(b) Simple.
(c) Boring.
(d) Elitist.

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

5. According to the Russian formalist Osip Brik, Pushkin's "Eugene Onegin" would have been written if Pushkin had what?
(a) Been uneducated.
(b) Died young.
(c) Married early.
(d) Not lived.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. During the Romantic period, how is literature more than "idle escapism"?

3. What is the example Eagleton provides of a metalanguage, where one sign-system denotes another sign-system?

4. What is the difference between metaphor and metonymy?

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

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