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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. According to Chapter 2, "What is Literature and Does it Matter?" what makes up the bulk of written work prior to modern literature?
(a) Letters and sermons.
(b) Prayers.
(c) Letters.
(d) Sermons.

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

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

4. Based on "What is Theory?" which of the following words can be used to describe theory?
(a) None of these.
(b) Unfocused.
(c) Literal.
(d) Scattered.

5. How old is modern literature?
(a) Fifty years.
(b) One century.
(c) Two decades.
(d) Two centuries.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 1, "What is Theory?" Culler defines theory as the opportunity to __________.

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

3. What idea did Rousseau help to develop?

4. Culler reports that some scholars are worried that isolation for readers may become __________.

5. According to the majority of theorists, who has the power to determine what can be known as literature?

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