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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1, Rise of the English.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. According to the Russian critic Roman Jakobson, literature represents "organized ______committed on ordinary _______."
(a) Protest; speech.
(b) Violence; speech.
(c) Violence; people.
(d) Religion; writing.

4. In the eighteenth-century, what was the whole body of writing in society considered, including philosophy, letters, history, poems, and essays?
(a) Canon.
(b) Religion.
(c) Theory.
(d) Literature.

5. According to Eagleton, the formalists were not out to define literature but they were out to define what?
(a) Inventiveness.
(b) Literariness.
(c) Realism.
(d) Criticism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Eagleton argues that reading literature in a new critical way was a recipe for what?

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, "Literary Theory: An Introduction" has managed to reach readers beyond __________.

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

5. For the economist Eagleton discusses, "those economists who dislike theory or claimed to get along better without it" were what?

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