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

2. Eagleton argues that the readership his book has attracted dispels the notion that literary theory is what?
(a) Elitist.
(b) Simple.
(c) Boring.
(d) Misguided.

3. What is the name of the economist Eagleton discusses in his preface?
(a) I. Fischer.
(b) J. M. Keynes.
(c) Gordon Tuck.
(d) Adam Smith.

4. 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.

5. According to Eagleton, "Literary Theory: An Introduction" has managed to reach readers beyond __________.
(a) Academia.
(b) Historians.
(c) Literature.
(d) Students.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Eagleton argues that if literature includes much factual writing, it also excludes "quite a lot of" what?

3. According to Eagleton, when did the Russian formalists emerge?

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

5. According to Eagleton, "theory was a way of _______ literary works from the ________of civilised sensibility'"

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