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

2. 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) "History of the Rebellion."
(b) "Animal Farm."
(c) "Don Quixote."
(d) "Tristram Shandy."

3. According to Eagleton, formalism is the application of what to the study of literature?
(a) Economics.
(b) Sociology.
(c) Linguistics.
(d) Psychology.

4. According to Eagleton, the Russian formalist shifted their attention to the "material reality" of what?
(a) The critic.
(b) The facts.
(c) The fiction.
(d) The text.

5. According to Eagleton, "In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, the word ______seems to have been used about true and fictional events."
(a) Memoir.
(b) Novel.
(c) Theory.
(d) News.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. According to the Russian critic Roman Jakobson, literature represents "organized ______committed on ordinary _______."

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

5. What date does Eagleton settle on as the "beginnings of the transformation which has taken over literary theory in this century"?

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