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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, Reception Theory.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The distinction between fact and fiction in defining literature is what?
(a) Complicated.
(b) Difficult.
(c) Questionable.
(d) Important.

2. From the viewpoint of Roland Barthes, Eagleton argues that "reading is less like a _______ than a _________."
(a) "Laboratory; boudoir."
(b) "Boudoir; system."
(c) "Boudoir; laboratory."
(d) "Philosophy; laboratory."

3. According to Eagleton, "theory was a way of _______ literary works from the ________of civilised sensibility'"
(a) Excluding; oppression.
(b) Emancipating; stranglehold.
(c) Dismissing; idea.
(d) Studying; truth.

4. What is the name of the Russian formalist who published the pioneering essay that is the "beginnings of the transformation which has taken over literary theory in this century"?
(a) Viktor Shklovsky.
(b) Alexander Pushkin.
(c) Fyodor Dostoevsky.
(d) Leo Tolstoy.

5. What genre of writing does Eagleton provide that is an example of writing that is NOT considered to be literature?
(a) Romance.
(b) Young Adult.
(c) Science fiction.
(d) Comics.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Eagleton, formalism is the application of what to the study of literature?

2. According to Eagleton, Gibbon and the authors of Genesis share what in common?

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

4. According to Eagleton, William Empson "insists on treating poetry as a species of ______language."

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

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