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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 Foucault's beliefs, what does society determine?
(a) Which ideas should be analyzed.
(b) Which ideas are interesting.
(c) Which ideas should invoke awe.
(d) All of these.

2. What has literary theory tried to do for the classics?
(a) Censor them.
(b) Make them into movies.
(c) Insult them.
(d) Save them.

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

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) History.
(d) DNA.

5. What literary approach begins a work with no preconceived ideas in an effort to discover its meaning?
(a) Justification.
(b) Translation.
(c) Hermeneutics.
(d) Poetics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to theorists, what will a reader not measure equally when it comes to Shakespeare versus a dime-store novel?

3. According to Chapter 4, how many specific elements do theorists analyze when considering a word in the text?

4. What did Derrida discover in Rousseau's work?

5. Who was Michel Foucault?

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