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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, Performative Language.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Readers often respond emotionally to a particular use of language due to _____________.
(a) Personal experience.
(b) Context of the words.
(c) Difficulty of text.
(d) Level of education.

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

3. Theory rarely results in __________, according to Culler.
(a) A good theory.
(b) A close estimation.
(c) A definitive answer.
(d) A strong guess.

4. What type of literary work is "Jane Eyre"?
(a) Expansive-fiction.
(b) Non-fiction.
(c) Fiction.
(d) Narrative-fiction.

5. What form of criticism believes that the understanding of text is contingent upon reader knowledge and experience?
(a) Writer-response.
(b) Reader-response.
(c) Journal-revision.
(d) Reader-awareness.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Foucault, what form of communication had power over social ideals?

2. What literary approach begins a work with no preconceived ideas in an effort to discover its meaning?

3. According to Chapter 3, what creates tension within cultural studies?

4. What form of literary theory tries to bring back voices from the past in an effort to create lost history?

5. Culler suggests that cultural studies attempt to fight against __________.

(see the answer key)

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