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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 Foucault's beliefs, what does society determine?
(a) Which ideas are interesting.
(b) Which ideas should invoke awe.
(c) All of these.
(d) Which ideas should be analyzed.

2. Literature as an aesthetic object attempts to encourage the reader to explore a relationship between _____________.
(a) Desire and words.
(b) Words and physical placement.
(c) Content and form.
(d) Form and function.

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

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

5. Who wrote "Jane Eyre"?
(a) Charlotte Bronte.
(b) Jane Austen.
(c) Kate Campion.
(d) Virginia Wolff.

Short Answer Questions

1. What literary form do parts of Robert Burns' poetry imitate?

2. On a grand scale, scholars believe literature to have the capability to speak for __________.

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

4. What nationality was Rousseau?

5. Culler reports that people in the 19th century believed that the "true nature" of an individual could be found in his ___________.

(see the answer key)

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