Literary Theory: An Introduction Quiz | Eight Week Quiz A

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Literary Theory: An Introduction Quiz | Eight Week Quiz A

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Introduction: What is Literature?.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What genre of writing does Eagleton provide that is an example of writing that is NOT considered to be literature?
(a) Romance.
(b) Young Adult.
(c) Comics.
(d) Science fiction.

2. The Russian formalists rejected what kind of doctrines that had influenced literary criticism?
(a) Quasi-mystical psychoanalytic doctrines.
(b) Quasi-mystical religious doctrines.
(c) Quasi-mystical fictional doctrines.
(d) Quasi-mystical symbolist doctrines.

3. What is the name of the pioneering essay the Russian formalist wrote that is the "beginnings of the transformation which has taken over literary theory in this century"?
(a) Theory as Practise.
(b) Film as Thought.
(c) Art as Device.
(d) Literature as Image.

4. According to Eagleton, literature is definable "not according to whether it is fictional or "imaginative," because it uses language in ____ways."
(a) Pragmatic.
(b) Profound.
(c) Pendantic.
(d) Peculiar.

5. According to Eagleton, what kind of age do we live in, where "meaning, like everything else, is expected to be instantly consumable"?
(a) Traditional.
(b) Esoteric.
(c) Modern.
(d) Postmodern.

Short Answer Questions

1. Eagleton argues that if literature includes much factual writing, it also excludes "quite a lot of" what?

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

3. Who silenced the Russian formalists, according to Eagleton?

4. According to Eagleton, "Literary Theory: An Introduction" has managed to reach readers beyond __________.

5. According to Eagleton, the approaches outlined in his book have implications where?

(see the answer key)

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