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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, "theory was a way of _______ literary works from the ________of civilised sensibility'"
(a) Studying; truth.
(b) Excluding; oppression.
(c) Dismissing; idea.
(d) Emancipating; stranglehold.

2. What person is NOT included in the ranks of Russian formalists?
(a) Viktor Shklovsky.
(b) Heinrich Wolffin.
(c) Roman Jakobson.
(d) Boris Tomashevsky.

3. Eagleton's goal in "Literary Theory: An Introduction" is to provide a comprehensive account of literary theory for whom?
(a) Those with extensive knowledge of literary theory.
(b) Those with little knowledge of literary theory.
(c) Those who have specialised knowledge of literary theory.
(d) Those who have some knowledge of literary theory.

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

5. What example from the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries does Eagleton provide that was not considered purely factual?
(a) Sermons.
(b) Decrees.
(c) News.
(d) Novels.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Eagleton, literature is definable "not according to whether it is fictional or "imaginative," because it uses language in ____ways."

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?

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

4. Why is the example Eagleton gives of the sign in the London Underground system that "dogs must be carried on the escalator" a case of estrangement?

5. According to Eagleton, what kind of thought does literary education NOT encourage?

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