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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, Identity, Identification, and the Subject.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Rousseau was concerned that what form of communication could be easily misinterpreted?
(a) Gossip.
(b) Singing.
(c) Speech and writing.
(d) Speech.

2. In literature, what is it called when events take place opposite of expectation?
(a) Point of view.
(b) Alliteration.
(c) Irony.
(d) Flashback.

3. Focault warned the masses to be wary of _________.
(a) Starving artists.
(b) Reading as a hobby.
(c) Poets as prophets.
(d) Words as gospel.

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

5. Culler suggests that the occasional confusion that results from the use of metaphor is due to __________.
(a) Repeat metaphors.
(b) The lyricism of the phrase.
(c) The invention of new words.
(d) A literal interpretation.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who believed that performative language could be humorous?

3. According to Chapter 2, when a story is told with non-fiction historical references, it is __________.

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

5. In Chapter 3, "Literature and Cultural Studies," what does the production of literature drive in society?

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