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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 Culler, what is a classic ideal that appears in many novels?
(a) A moral lesson.
(b) True love.
(c) Understanding of oneself.
(d) Truth and justice.

2. According to Chapter 1, what does literary theory often critique?
(a) Unnecessary documentation.
(b) Proven facts.
(c) Common sense ideas.
(d) Words of the wealthy.

3. Poetry has the capability to influence what in its reader, according to Culler?
(a) All of these.
(b) Great joy.
(c) Intense sorrow.
(d) Overwhelming empathy.

4. When a novel contains situations that should be intolerable, what are readers prompted to defy?
(a) Personal convictions.
(b) Reading.
(c) Authority.
(d) Social injustice.

5. What type of study is approached clinically?
(a) Literary.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Cultural.
(d) Nomanclature.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Chapter 5, what is the goal in using a metaphor?

2. What was Richard Rorty's area of expertise?

3. Interpellation studies the effect of ______________ in shaping an individual's actions.

4. In the 20th century, what is the most popular form of literature, according to Culler?

5. Literature, according to Culler, has the ability to do what for ideology?

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