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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 is the desired result after conflict within a novel?
(a) A sudden romance.
(b) More conflict.
(c) Resolution.
(d) A plot twist.

2. Who said "the child is father to the man"?
(a) Yeats.
(b) Wordsworth.
(c) Wilkes.
(d) Cummings.

3. What is no longer demanded of cultural scholars?
(a) "Close reading."
(b) "Tight reading."
(c) "Back reading."
(d) "Slow reading."

4. According to Culler, what do literary works offer their readers?
(a) Appropriate names.
(b) None of these.
(c) Detailed plans on how to revolt.
(d) Models of identity.

5. According to Chapter 4, what effect should the words have on the reader?
(a) An effect on imagination.
(b) All of these.
(c) An emotional response.
(d) A subliminal message.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what types of topics did Foucault attempt to give historical relevance?

2. What should a novel be according to Mikhail Bakhtin?

3. According to the majority of theorists, who has the power to determine what can be known as literature?

4. What type of performance describes a state of affairs that can be proven to be accurate or inaccurate?

5. According to Chapter 3, which author continues to stand the test of time?

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