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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Rhetoric, Poetics, and Poetry.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to Chapter 5, how should poems be read?
(a) In private.
(b) In sections.
(c) By the author.
(d) All at once.

3. What has literary theory helped add to the study of classics?
(a) Classical theory.
(b) Historical perspective.
(c) Metaphoric guidelines.
(d) Modern theory.

4. Culler reports that people in the 19th century believed that the "true nature" of an individual could be found in his ___________.
(a) Sex.
(b) Lineage.
(c) DNA.
(d) History.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Some scholars fear that literature could inspire _____________.

2. Who created the theory of interpellation?

3. According to Chapter 2, when a story is told with non-fiction historical references, it is __________.

4. What is the literary device that is an over exaggeration of a word or idea?

5. What literary form do parts of Robert Burns' poetry imitate?

(see the answer key)

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