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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, What Is Literature and Does It Matter?.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Chapter 2, when a story is told with non-fiction historical references, it is __________.
(a) Non-literary.
(b) A literary narrative.
(c) A work of literary fiction.
(d) A literary rambling.

2. Focault warned the masses to be wary of _________.
(a) Reading as a hobby.
(b) Poets as prophets.
(c) Starving artists.
(d) Words as gospel.

3. According to Chapter 2, which of the examples below cannot be considered literature?
(a) All of these.
(b) The phone book.
(c) Instructional manuals.
(d) Private journals.

4. Literature, according to Culler, has the ability to do what for ideology?
(a) All of these.
(b) Praise it.
(c) Elevate it.
(d) Destory it.

5. What part of "The History of Sexuality" bothered Michel Foucault?
(a) Its focus on the female.
(b) Its inaccurate information.
(c) Its graphic delivery.
(d) Its repressive delivery.

Short Answer Questions

1. What idea did Rousseau help to develop?

2. According to Chapter 2, literature must contain ____________ in order to qualify as literature.

3. What type of literary work is "Jane Eyre"?

4. What is the absolute, end result of theory, as expressed in Chapter 1, "What is Theory?"

5. What was Richard Rorty's area of expertise?

(see the answer key)

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