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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Literature and Cultural Studies.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Examining the time period prior to modern literature, in what fashion are these works of fiction analyzed for literary theory?
(a) Both written and verbal analysis.
(b) Written analysis.
(c) They are not analyzed.
(d) Verbal analysis.

2. Thanks to cultural studies, what has happened to many previously discarded works?
(a) They were debated in schools.
(b) They were revamped.
(c) They were rediscovered.
(d) All of these.

3. Who created the theory of interpellation?
(a) Jacob Traventhorn.
(b) Shane Montgomery.
(c) Jacques Bouvois.
(d) Louis Althusser.

4. According to Chapter 3, what creates tension within cultural studies?
(a) Two different approaches.
(b) Educators prefer to read without coaching.
(c) Writers are against it.
(d) Ambiguous results.

5. Modern Western literature can be traced to ______________.
(a) Russian Scholars.
(b) British Agnostic believers.
(c) French Writers and Artists.
(d) German Romantic theorists.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the majority of theorists, who has the power to determine what can be known as literature?

2. What non-fiction literary device does "Jane Eyre" mimic?

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

4. Culler reports that people in the 19th century believed that the "true nature" of an individual could be found in his ___________.

5. What idea did Rousseau help to develop?

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