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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 kind of language does Eagleton say people think of literature as?
(a) Strange.
(b) Difficult.
(c) Dull.
(d) Ordinary.

2. During the 1960s, what kind of students began to enter higher education that broke down assumptions about literary studies?
(a) Students from supposedly "first-world" countries.
(b) Students from supposedly "uncultivated" backgrounds.
(c) Students from supposedly "cultivated" backgrounds.
(d) Students from supposedly "third-world" countries.

3. Who silenced the Russian formalists, according to Eagleton?
(a) Socialists.
(b) Liberals.
(c) Stalinists.
(d) Bolsheviks.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. For the economist Eagleton discusses, "those economists who dislike theory or claimed to get along better without it" were what?

2. According to Eagleton, formalism is the application of what to the study of literature?

3. According to Eagleton, literature is definable "not according to whether it is fictional or "imaginative," because it uses language in ____ways."

4. How far has the "theoretical revolution" spread according to Eagleton?

5. According to Eagleton, Gibbon and the authors of Genesis share what in common?

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