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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. What is the purpose of literary theory, according to "What is Theory?"
(a) To reflect on ideas.
(b) To transcend ignorant readers.
(c) To prove writing wrong.
(d) To tame the masses.

2. According to Culler, what power is given to literature by literary performatives?
(a) The ability to change the world.
(b) The ability to cause chaos.
(c) The ability to understand the world.
(d) The ability to make the present obsolete.

3. What literary approach starts with a preconceived notion before offering supporting evidence to payoff that idea?
(a) Poetics.
(b) Hermeneutics.
(c) All of these.
(d) Justification.

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

5. By creating a vague story or lead character In literature, Culler suggests that the author hopes to achieve what response from the reader?
(a) Frustration.
(b) Projection.
(c) Creativity.
(d) All of these.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to studies, the majority of film and literature has been created from whose point of view?

2. Many theorists believe that understanding the meaning of words in a text is ___________.

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

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 According to Chapter 2, when a story is told with non-fiction historical references, it is __________.

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

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