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

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

3. According to Eagleton, "theory was a way of _______ literary works from the ________of civilised sensibility'"
(a) Studying; truth.
(b) Excluding; oppression.
(c) Emancipating; stranglehold.
(d) Dismissing; idea.

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

5. Eagleton argues that if literature includes much factual writing, it also excludes "quite a lot of" what?
(a) Fiction.
(b) Autobiography.
(c) Nonfiction.
(d) Biography.

Short Answer Questions

1. For Eagleton, hostility toward theory means what?

2. What person is NOT included in the ranks of Russian formalists?

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"?

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

5. According to Eagleton, what kind of thought does literary education NOT encourage?

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