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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the significance of published literature, according to Culler?
(a) A book is paid for.
(b) It can catapult an author to fame.
(c) A book is available for the masses.
(d) A book is declared worthy to read.

2. What type of literary work is "Jane Eyre"?
(a) Expansive-fiction.
(b) Narrative-fiction.
(c) Fiction.
(d) Non-fiction.

3. What nationality was Rousseau?
(a) African.
(b) British.
(c) French.
(d) Russian.

4. In Chapter 3, "Literature and Cultural Studies," what does the production of literature drive in society?
(a) The teachers.
(b) The culture.
(c) The readers.
(d) The church.

5. Why are cultural studies and literary theory not at odds with each other?
(a) They are from two different genres.
(b) They are static.
(c) They were invented by the same person.
(d) They stem from the same philosophy.

6. In Chapter 2, it is suggested that British literature worked to do what among the classes?
(a) Invoke shame.
(b) Instill a stronger sense of class.
(c) Create a divide.
(d) Create harmony.

7. According to Foucault's beliefs, what does society determine?
(a) Which ideas should be analyzed.
(b) Which ideas should invoke awe.
(c) All of these.
(d) Which ideas are interesting.

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

9. According to Chapter 4, what is Hamlet about on a surface level?
(a) The betrayal of family.
(b) A Danish Prince.
(c) The death of a father.
(d) A young man's inheritance.

10. According to theorists, how many people are required to obtain multiple interpretations of a text?
(a) Ten.
(b) Three.
(c) Two.
(d) One.

11. Who believed that linguists have the ability to help others speak, read, and understand never seen before words and sentence structures?
(a) Guy Roach.
(b) Noam Chomsky.
(c) Samson McHenry.
(d) Beuford Wether.

12. What literary approach begins a work with no preconceived ideas in an effort to discover its meaning?
(a) Justification.
(b) Translation.
(c) Hermeneutics.
(d) Poetics.

13. Literature as an aesthetic object attempts to encourage the reader to explore a relationship between _____________.
(a) Desire and words.
(b) Content and form.
(c) Form and function.
(d) Words and physical placement.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the absolute, end result of theory, as expressed in Chapter 1, "What is Theory?"

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

3. English literature is known for being ____________.

4. In the West, most theorists believe language allows for _____________.

5. According to Goethe, "life devoid of passion" is ___________.

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