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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, What Is Literature and Does It Matter?.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. According to Chapter 2, literature must contain ____________ in order to qualify as literature.
(a) Biblical references.
(b) Proper sentence structure.
(c) Words with a deeper meaning.
(d) Social reform.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote "Jane Eyre"?

2. What is the absolute, end result of theory, as expressed in Chapter 1, "What is Theory?"

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

4. Focault warned the masses to be wary of _________.

5. In terms of reading a literary work, Culler believes publication places what burden on a reader?

(see the answer key)

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