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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. Culler reports that some scholars are worried that isolation for readers may become __________.
(a) Disengaged.
(b) Angry.
(c) Too intelligent.
(d) Wealthy.

2. What idea did Rousseau help to develop?
(a) Financial awareness.
(b) The benefits of marriage.
(c) Individuality.
(d) Evolution.

3. According to Chapter 6, what do strong characters encourage readers to imagine?
(a) Other people's lives.
(b) How to be better writers.
(c) A proper literary form.
(d) The conclusion of the story.

4. What great thinker believed plot to be the most significant part of a story?
(a) Plato.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Voltaire.
(d) Beauvoir.

5. In what century did Rousseau write?
(a) 17th century.
(b) 19th century.
(c) 12th century.
(d) 18th century.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the literary device that substitutes a part for the whole or vice versa?

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

3. What type of literary work is "Jane Eyre"?

4. According to Chapter 7, a declarative statement that promises action can be defined as ________________.

5. Instead of providing tested solutions, Culler teaches that theory aims to ____________.

(see the answer key)

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