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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. Who silenced the Russian formalists, according to Eagleton?
(a) Socialists.
(b) Bolsheviks.
(c) Stalinists.
(d) Liberals.

2. According to Eagleton, formalism is the application of what to the study of literature?
(a) Economics.
(b) Sociology.
(c) Linguistics.
(d) Psychology.

3. 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?
(a) "History of the Rebellion."
(b) "Tristram Shandy."
(c) "Animal Farm."
(d) "Don Quixote."

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

5. According to Eagleton, the "very meaning of _______, ________ and _________ has undergone deep alteration."
(a) Literature; reading; criticism.
(b) Film; viewing; education.
(c) Power; authority; freedom.
(d) Art; theory; practise.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Eagleton, what idea is "truly elitist" in literary studies?

3. According to Eagleton, the Russian formalist shifted their attention to the "material reality" of what?

4. According to Eagleton, what happens when literary theory becomes "turgidly unreadable"?

5. What kind of language does Eagleton say people think of literature as?

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