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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, Gibbon and the authors of Genesis share what in common?
(a) They both thought they were writing historical truth, but are read as fact by some and fiction by others.
(b) Both wrote historical truth that is read as fiction.
(c) Both wrote fiction that is read as fact by some and fiction by others.
(d) Both wrote fiction that is read as historical fact.

2. For the economist Eagleton discusses, "those economists who dislike theory or claimed to get along better without it" were what?
(a) Didn't understand the importance of theory.
(b) Had no knowledge of any theory.
(c) In the grip of an older theory.
(d) In the grip of the most current theory.

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

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

5. What is "imaginative" literature or literature that is not necessarily true?
(a) Nonfiction.
(b) Memoir.
(c) Fiction.
(d) Biography.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the economist Eagleton discusses in his preface?

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

3. Eagleton argues that the readership his book has attracted dispels the notion that literary theory is what?

4. The Russian formalists rejected what kind of doctrines that had influenced literary criticism?

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

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