View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What nationality was Rousseau?
(a) British.
(b) African.
(c) Russian.
(d) French.

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

3. According to Chapter 2, when a story is told with non-fiction historical references, it is __________.
(a) A literary rambling.
(b) Non-literary.
(c) A literary narrative.
(d) A work of literary fiction.

4. What culture put literary works into only three groups?
(a) The Swiss.
(b) The Greeks.
(c) The Romans.
(d) The Americans.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Culler, what do many novels teach about heartache?

2. According to Goethe, "life devoid of passion" is ___________.

3. According to Chapter 6, what type of narrator do readers most trust?

4. According to Foucault, what form of communication had power over social ideals?

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

(see the answer key)

This section contains 196 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample