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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. According to Eagleton, William Empson "insists on treating poetry as a species of ______language."
(a) Spectacular.
(b) Secular.
(c) Ordinary.
(d) Religious.

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

3. According to Eagleton, what kind of thought does literary education NOT encourage?
(a) Creative thought.
(b) Analytical thought.
(c) Irrational thought.
(d) Rational thought.

4. What is the German word for how reality is not objective, but experienced and organized by an individual subject?
(a) Vorgeschichte.
(b) Lebenswelt.
(c) Bildungsroman.
(d) Wendepunkt.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the Russian critic Roman Jakobson, literature represents "organized ______committed on ordinary _______."

2. According to Eagleton, in the romantic aesthetic theory the meaning of the word literature became what?

3. According to Eagleton, the formalists were not out to define literature but they were out to define what?

4. According to Eagleton, "In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, the word ______seems to have been used about true and fictional events."

5. Who wrote "What is Literature" on literary reception and was published in 1948?

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