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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, Performative Language.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Chapter 6, what type of narrator do readers most trust?
(a) An honest narrator.
(b) An educated narrator.
(c) An unbiased narrator.
(d) A well-known narrator.

2. Literature as an aesthetic object attempts to encourage the reader to explore a relationship between _____________.
(a) Form and function.
(b) Content and form.
(c) Words and physical placement.
(d) Desire and words.

3. Who defined rhetoric as "the art of persuasion"?
(a) Socrates.
(b) Raphael.
(c) Michelangelo.
(d) Aristotle.

4. In Chapter 3, "Literature and Cultural Studies," what does the production of literature drive in society?
(a) The culture.
(b) The teachers.
(c) The church.
(d) The readers.

5. When a novel contains situations that should be intolerable, what are readers prompted to defy?
(a) Reading.
(b) Authority.
(c) Personal convictions.
(d) Social injustice.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what type of performative theory was Judith Butler known?

2. Focault warned the masses to be wary of _________.

3. What literary approach starts with a preconceived notion before offering supporting evidence to payoff that idea?

4. Culler suggests that cultural studies attempt to fight against __________.

5. Who was against the ideas that performative language could be humorous?

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