Quiz: Preface to Introduction: What is Literature? |Name:
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___________________________| This quiz consists of 5 multiple
choice and 5 short answer questions. Multiple Choice Questions
Directions: Circle the correct answer. 1. According to Eagleton,
formalism is the application of what to the study of literature?
2. Eagleton argues that if literature includes much factual
writing, it also excludes "quite a lot of" what? 3. For
Eagleton, opposition between "historical" and "artistic" truth
does NOT apply to what? b) Middle English. c) Early Icelandic
sagas. d) Late Victorian novels. 4. According to Eagleton, what
does his book try to demonstrate about a body of literary
theory? a) That there is sometimes a body of literary theory
that springs from and is applicable to literature alone. This
section contains 439 words| (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per
page)