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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. For Eagleton, hostility toward theory means what?
(a) Opposition to other people's theories and oblivion of one's own.
(b) Acceptance to some people's theories and protective of one's own.
(c) Acceptance to some people's theories.
(d) Opposition to other people's theories.

2. According to Eagleton, literature is definable "not according to whether it is fictional or "imaginative," because it uses language in ____ways."
(a) Profound.
(b) Pragmatic.
(c) Peculiar.
(d) Pendantic.

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

4. According to Eagleton, when did the Russian formalists emerge?
(a) During the Russian Revolution.
(b) After WWI.
(c) Before the Bolshevik Revolution.
(d) Before WWII.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Eagleton, what kind of age do we live in, where "meaning, like everything else, is expected to be instantly consumable"?

2. Eagleton's goal in "Literary Theory: An Introduction" is to provide a comprehensive account of literary theory for whom?

3. According to Eagleton, the "very meaning of _______, ________ and _________ has undergone deep alteration."

4. According to Eagleton, the sentence "this is awfully squiggly handwriting" from Knut Hamsun's "Hunger" tells him its literary because of what reason?

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

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