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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 type of literary work is "Jane Eyre"?
(a) Fiction.
(b) Narrative-fiction.
(c) Expansive-fiction.
(d) Non-fiction.

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

3. According to Goethe, "life devoid of passion" is ___________.
(a) Typical.
(b) An honor.
(c) Difficult to achieve.
(d) Meaningless.

4. What part of "The History of Sexuality" bothered Michel Foucault?
(a) Its focus on the female.
(b) Its graphic delivery.
(c) Its repressive delivery.
(d) Its inaccurate information.

5. In Chapter 2, it is suggested that British literature worked to do what among the classes?
(a) Instill a stronger sense of class.
(b) Create a divide.
(c) Create harmony.
(d) Invoke shame.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Derrida discover in Rousseau's work?

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

3. To what types of topics did Foucault attempt to give historical relevance?

4. What nationality was Rousseau?

5. Examining the time period prior to modern literature, in what fashion are these works of fiction analyzed for literary theory?

(see the answer key)

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