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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Culler reports that cultural studies typically focus on the lifestyle of whom?
(a) Scholars.
(b) World travelers.
(c) Famous people.
(d) Ordinary men.

2. Who asserts that the interpretation of metaphor is often reliant upon another metaphor?
(a) Shakespeare.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Derrida.
(d) Marlowe.

3. What form of literary theory tries to bring back voices from the past in an effort to create lost history?
(a) Republican.
(b) Lennon.
(c) Marxist.
(d) Socialist.

4. When a narrator only knows certain things, what is the narration called?
(a) Productive limited.
(b) Third person limited.
(c) Omniscient.
(d) Third person.

5. According to the majority of theorists, who has the power to determine what can be known as literature?
(a) Professors.
(b) Readers.
(c) Society.
(d) Scholars.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What theory analyzes the relationship between mass culture and popular culture?

4. According to Chapter 6, what do strong characters encourage readers to imagine?

5. According to Cullers in Chapter 6, what form of literature has been studied the most in the 20th century?

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