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

2. What literary form do parts of Robert Burns' poetry imitate?
(a) Shakespeare.
(b) Speeches.
(c) Folk songs.
(d) Sermons.

3. Who defined rhetoric as "the art of persuasion"?
(a) Socrates.
(b) Michelangelo.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Raphael.

4. The use of what literary device requires the combination of language and imagination?
(a) Hyperbole.
(b) Foreshadowing.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Verb.

5. According to Chapter 6, what is the desired result after conflict within a novel?
(a) A sudden romance.
(b) Resolution.
(c) More conflict.
(d) A plot twist.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Chapter 8, how is the true nature of a character often revealed in literature?

3. Who is the narrator in "What Maisie Knew"?

4. In Chapter 2, it is suggested that British literature worked to do what among the classes?

5. According to Culler, what power is given to literature by literary performatives?

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