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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. How many decades, according to Eagleton, has there been a "striking proliferation of literary theory" since the publication of the Russian formalist's pioneering essay?
(a) Six.
(b) Two.
(c) Five.
(d) One.
2. Eagleton argues that if literature includes much factual writing, it also excludes "quite a lot of" what?
(a) Biography.
(b) Nonfiction.
(c) Autobiography.
(d) Fiction.
3. The Russian formalists rejected what kind of doctrines that had influenced literary criticism?
(a) Quasi-mystical religious doctrines.
(b) Quasi-mystical psychoanalytic doctrines.
(c) Quasi-mystical symbolist doctrines.
(d) Quasi-mystical fictional doctrines.
4. According to Eagleton, the formalists were not out to define literature but they were out to define what?
(a) Realism.
(b) Literariness.
(c) Criticism.
(d) Inventiveness.
5. According to Eagleton, what idea is "truly elitist" in literary studies?
(a) "The idea that literature can only be understood by writers of literature."
(b) "The idea that literature should not be read by those without a higher degree."
(c) "The idea that literature is the only way to understand a particular culture."
(d) "The idea that works of literature can only be appreciated by those with a particular sort of cultural breeding."
Short Answer Questions
1. What kind of language does Eagleton say people think of literature as?
2. According to the Russian formalist Osip Brik, Pushkin's "Eugene Onegin" would have been written if Pushkin had what?
3. What genre of writing does Eagleton provide that is an example of writing that is NOT considered to be literature?
4. For Eagleton, hostility toward theory means what?
5. What is the name of the Russian formalist who published the pioneering essay that is the "beginnings of the transformation which has taken over literary theory in this century"?
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