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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. According to Chapter 2, literature must contain ____________ in order to qualify as literature.
(a) Proper sentence structure.
(b) Social reform.
(c) Biblical references.
(d) Words with a deeper meaning.

2. According to studies, the majority of film and literature has been created from whose point of view?
(a) Women.
(b) The rich.
(c) The poor.
(d) Men.

3. What era defined rhetoric as "the art of eloquence"?
(a) The Industrial Age.
(b) The Renaissance.
(c) The Modern Age.
(d) The Dark Ages.

4. Who asserts that the interpretation of metaphor is often reliant upon another metaphor?
(a) Shakespeare.
(b) Derrida.
(c) Marlowe.
(d) Socrates.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Examining the time period prior to modern literature, in what fashion are these works of fiction analyzed for literary theory?

2. Culler reports that some scholars are worried that isolation for readers may become __________.

3. According to Chapter 1, what does literary theory often critique?

4. To what types of topics did Foucault attempt to give historical relevance?

5. Theory rarely results in __________, according to Culler.

(see the answer key)

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