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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 Culler, what is a classic ideal that appears in many novels?
(a) A moral lesson.
(b) True love.
(c) Understanding of oneself.
(d) Truth and justice.

2. Interpretation is important in language because it can affect ______________.
(a) Who wrote the text.
(b) Its prestige.
(c) Who will buy the text.
(d) The meaning of a text.

3. Who was Michel Foucault?
(a) A Swiss banker who knew poetry.
(b) A Russian doctor who loved literature.
(c) A French intellectual historian.
(d) A Spanish immigrant professor.

4. English literature is known for being ____________.
(a) Pastoral.
(b) Inaccurate.
(c) Political.
(d) Sentimental.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 3, "Literature and Cultural Studies," what does the production of literature drive in society?

2. For what type of performative theory was Judith Butler known?

3. In Culler's opinion, to what is rhetoric related?

4. According to Chapter 4, what is Hamlet about on a surface level?

5. Who asserts that the interpretation of metaphor is often reliant upon another metaphor?

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