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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. What great thinker believed plot to be the most significant part of a story?
(a) Plato.
(b) Voltaire.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Beauvoir.

2. For what types of literature has cultural studies gained new attention?
(a) Literature with cultural issues.
(b) Short form literature.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Literature with animal themes.

3. Culler reports that cultural studies typically focus on the lifestyle of whom?
(a) Famous people.
(b) Ordinary men.
(c) World travelers.
(d) Scholars.

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

5. Culler explains the nature of discourse on theory as _________.
(a) Dull.
(b) All of these.
(c) Predictable.
(d) Speculative.

Short Answer Questions

1. What presents a story through the use of verbal patterning?

2. According to Foucault's beliefs, what does society determine?

3. Thanks to cultural studies, the literary canon has succeeded in _____________.

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

5. Culler suggests that performative language aids is the understanding of ______________.

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