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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. Examining the time period prior to modern literature, in what fashion are these works of fiction analyzed for literary theory?
(a) Both written and verbal analysis.
(b) Verbal analysis.
(c) They are not analyzed.
(d) Written analysis.

2. According to Chapter 2, which of the examples below cannot be considered literature?
(a) All of these.
(b) Instructional manuals.
(c) Private journals.
(d) The phone book.

3. According to Foucault, what form of communication had power over social ideals?
(a) Online resources.
(b) The newspaper.
(c) Letters.
(d) Literature.

4. To what types of topics did Foucault attempt to give historical relevance?
(a) Sex.
(b) Madness.
(c) Punishment.
(d) All of these.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The History of Sexuality," what was used as a blanket term to describe all aspects related to sexuality?

2. What is the purpose of literary theory, according to "What is Theory?"

3. Theory rarely results in __________, according to Culler.

4. Culler explains the nature of discourse on theory as _________.

5. According to Chapter 1, what does literary theory often critique?

(see the answer key)

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