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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. According to Chapter 2, which of the examples below cannot be considered literature?
(a) Instructional manuals.
(b) All of these.
(c) Private journals.
(d) The phone book.

2. For what type of performative theory was Judith Butler known?
(a) Political climate.
(b) Gender and sexuality.
(c) Roles in the workforce.
(d) Religious phrasing.

3. What is a typical theme in literature?
(a) Character identity.
(b) Character compassion.
(c) Family demoralization.
(d) Deliberate violence.

4. Theory rarely results in __________, according to Culler.
(a) A close estimation.
(b) A strong guess.
(c) A good theory.
(d) A definitive answer.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Chapter 2, literature must contain ____________ in order to qualify as literature.

2. In Chapter 8, what forms of entertainment encourage feelings and virtue?

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

4. Poetry has the capability to influence what in its reader, according to Culler?

5. What did Derrida discover in Rousseau's work?

(see the answer key)

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