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 the Russian formalist Osip Brik, Pushkin's "Eugene Onegin" would have been written if Pushkin had what?
(a) Died young.
(b) Not lived.
(c) Married early.
(d) Been uneducated.

3. 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?
(a) Because the directive is unambigious and therefore inherently meaningful.
(b) Because the statement is a directive where people who do not follow are estranged from society.
(c) Because of the ambiguities inherent in the statement, which raises questions about its meaning.
(d) Because the language is prosaic and straightforward.

4. According to Eagleton, what is ironic about those who complain of the difficulty of literary theory?
(a) "That those who complain are often uncivilised and uneducated."
(b) "That those who complain would expect to understand a textbook of biology or chemical engineering."
(c) "That those who complain are often civilised and educated."
(d) "That those who complain would not expect to understand a textbook of biology or chemical engineering."

5. For Eagleton, opposition between "historical" and "artistic" truth does NOT apply to what?
(a) Fairy-tales.
(b) Late Victorian novels.
(c) Early Icelandic sagas.
(d) Middle English.