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

2. According to Eagleton, the Russian formalist shifted their attention to the "material reality" of what?
(a) The facts.
(b) The critic.
(c) The fiction.
(d) The text.

3. 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.

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

5. How far has the "theoretical revolution" spread according to Eagleton?
(a) Not beyond the circle of specialists and enthusiasts.
(b) Within the inner circle of critics and readers.
(c) To the outer circle of critics and readers.
(d) Far beyond the circle of specialists and enthusiasts.

Short Answer Questions

1. What year did Terry Eagleton's "Literary Theory: An Introduction" first appear?

2. According to the Russian formalist Osip Brik, Pushkin's "Eugene Onegin" would have been written if Pushkin had what?

3. What example from the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries does Eagleton provide that was not considered purely factual?

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

5. According to Eagleton, why did the Russian formalists NOT see a literary work as a vehicle for ideas, reflection of reality, or transcendental truth?

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