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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, Identity, Identification, and the Subject.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Using a word to represent a person, title, group, or similar is the use of __________.
(a) Trope Metonymy.
(b) Synecdoche.
(c) Bibliomancy.
(d) Anthropomorphism.

3. What idea did Rousseau help to develop?
(a) Individuality.
(b) The benefits of marriage.
(c) Financial awareness.
(d) Evolution.

4. What is the purpose of literary theory, according to "What is Theory?"
(a) To prove writing wrong.
(b) To reflect on ideas.
(c) To tame the masses.
(d) To transcend ignorant readers.

5. Who is Mikhail Bakhtin?
(a) A Russian theorist.
(b) An American writer.
(c) A French theorist.
(d) A Roman philospher.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Culler, what do many novels teach about heartache?

3. Interpretation is important in language because it can affect ______________.

4. By creating a vague story or lead character In literature, Culler suggests that the author hopes to achieve what response from the reader?

5. What has literary theory tried to do for the classics?

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