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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, Narrative.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Chapter 4, what is Hamlet about on a surface level?
(a) A young man's inheritance.
(b) The betrayal of family.
(c) The death of a father.
(d) A Danish Prince.

2. Readers often respond emotionally to a particular use of language due to _____________.
(a) Personal experience.
(b) Context of the words.
(c) Level of education.
(d) Difficulty of text.

3. Culler reports that the use of a genre can do what for a reader?
(a) Limit reading ability.
(b) Create expectation.
(c) Inspire creativity.
(d) Falsify facts.

4. For what types of literature has cultural studies gained new attention?
(a) Short form literature.
(b) Literature with animal themes.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Literature with cultural issues.

5. Who said "the child is father to the man"?
(a) Yeats.
(b) Wilkes.
(c) Wordsworth.
(d) Cummings.

Short Answer 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?

2. What nationality was Rousseau?

3. What is the term given to literature that is routinely studied in schools and universities?

4. Who believed that linguists have the ability to help others speak, read, and understand never seen before words and sentence structures?

5. What should a novel be according to Mikhail Bakhtin?

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