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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. Who was Judith Butler?
(a) A famous French speaker.
(b) An American philospher.
(c) A published fiction writer.
(d) A Harvard professor.

2. Who said "the child is father to the man"?
(a) Wordsworth.
(b) Cummings.
(c) Wilkes.
(d) Yeats.

3. According to Chapter 6, what is the desired result after conflict within a novel?
(a) Resolution.
(b) A sudden romance.
(c) A plot twist.
(d) More conflict.

4. Based on "What is Theory?" which of the following words can be used to describe theory?
(a) Unfocused.
(b) None of these.
(c) Literal.
(d) Scattered.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The way the plot is presented is referred to as the ________.

2. Who believed that linguists have the ability to help others speak, read, and understand never seen before words and sentence structures?

3. Why are cultural studies and literary theory not at odds with each other?

4. According to Culler, when it comes to performative language, what is required to give a word or a phrase weight?

5. What is the literary device that substitutes a part for the whole or vice versa?

(see the answer key)

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