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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. According to some theorists, what idea was created by literature?
(a) Acknowledging one's significance.
(b) Being in love.
(c) Creating a family unit.
(d) Living by one's conscience.

2. According to Chapter 6, what do strong characters encourage readers to imagine?
(a) A proper literary form.
(b) Other people's lives.
(c) The conclusion of the story.
(d) How to be better writers.

3. Thanks to cultural studies, the literary canon has succeeded in _____________.
(a) All of these.
(b) Attracting new readers.
(c) Bringing in timely literature.
(d) Growing.

4. According to Culler, what power is given to literature by literary performatives?
(a) The ability to understand the world.
(b) The ability to cause chaos.
(c) The ability to change the world.
(d) The ability to make the present obsolete.

5. Who was J.L. Austin?
(a) A Russian speaker.
(b) An American linguist.
(c) A British philosopher.
(d) A French linguist.

Short Answer Questions

1. When a narrator only knows certain things, what is the narration called?

2. What should appear at the end of a novel according to "Chapter 6, Narrative"?

3. When a novel contains situations that should be intolerable, what are readers prompted to defy?

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

5. Literature as an aesthetic object attempts to encourage the reader to explore a relationship between _____________.

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