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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. According to Viktor Shklovsky, what novel was "the most typical novel in world literature" because it impeded its own story-line so that it never gets off the ground?
(a) "Don Quixote."
(b) "Animal Farm."
(c) "Tristram Shandy."
(d) "History of the Rebellion."

2. According to Eagleton, "properly understood, literary theory is shaped by a ______impulse rather than an _______one."
(a) Democratic; elitist.
(b) Different; indifferent.
(c) Popular; unpopular.
(d) Cultivated; uncultivated.

3. According to Eagleton, the formalists were not out to define literature but they were out to define what?
(a) Inventiveness.
(b) Literariness.
(c) Criticism.
(d) Realism.

4. 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) Art as Device.
(b) Film as Thought.
(c) Theory as Practise.
(d) Literature as Image.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Eagleton, "theory was a way of _______ literary works from the ________of civilised sensibility'"

2. Eagleton provides the analogy of finding a "scrap of writing from a long-vanished civilization" to make what point about deciphering its meaning?

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

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

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

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