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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, Performative Language.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Chapter 6, what type of narrator do readers most trust?
(a) An unbiased narrator.
(b) A well-known narrator.
(c) An educated narrator.
(d) An honest narrator.

2. Who believed that performative language could be humorous?
(a) Shakespeare.
(b) Roe.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Austin.

3. Cultural studies aim to demonstrate how people are affected by ___________.
(a) The lack of money.
(b) Cultural forces.
(c) The lack of education.
(d) Artistic merit.

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

5. What is the literary device that substitutes a part for the whole or vice versa?
(a) Amplification.
(b) Doppleganger.
(c) Spoonerism.
(d) Synecdoche.

Short Answer Questions

1. Culler explains the nature of discourse on theory as _________.

2. What should appear at the end of a novel according to "Chapter 6, Narrative"?

3. According to Foucault's beliefs, what does society determine?

4. What type of poetry allows the reader to listen in on the narrator's thoughts?

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

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