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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. During the 1960s, what kind of students began to enter higher education that broke down assumptions about literary studies?
(a) Students from supposedly "uncultivated" backgrounds.
(b) Students from supposedly "cultivated" backgrounds.
(c) Students from supposedly "first-world" countries.
(d) Students from supposedly "third-world" countries.

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

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

4. According to Eagleton, when did the Russian formalists emerge?
(a) After WWI.
(b) During the Russian Revolution.
(c) Before WWII.
(d) Before the Bolshevik Revolution.

5. What year did Terry Eagleton's "Literary Theory: An Introduction" first appear?
(a) 1943.
(b) 1993.
(c) 1983.
(d) 1963.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Eagleton argues that the readership his book has attracted dispels the notion that literary theory is what?

5. According to Eagleton, what kind of thought does literary education NOT encourage?

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