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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On a grand scale, scholars believe literature to have the capability to speak for __________.
(a) Society.
(b) Lawmakers.
(c) All of these.
(d) Students.

2. Culler reports that theory has the ability to undo which of the following?
(a) What is blasphemous.
(b) What is already known.
(c) What is incorrect.
(d) What is offensive.

3. According to the majority of theorists, who has the power to determine what can be known as literature?
(a) Scholars.
(b) Professors.
(c) Readers.
(d) Society.

4. What is the absolute, end result of theory, as expressed in Chapter 1, "What is Theory?"
(a) An final understanding of literature.
(b) A change in history.
(c) A solid, proven revision.
(d) There isn't one.

5. What form of literary theory tries to bring back voices from the past in an effort to create lost history?
(a) Republican.
(b) Marxist.
(c) Socialist.
(d) Lennon.

6. To what types of topics did Foucault attempt to give historical relevance?
(a) Madness.
(b) All of these.
(c) Punishment.
(d) Sex.

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

8. Thanks to cultural studies, what has happened to many previously discarded works?
(a) All of these.
(b) They were rediscovered.
(c) They were revamped.
(d) They were debated in schools.

9. In order to understand language as a system, what must a linguist examine regarding its meaning and form?
(a) Underlying conventions.
(b) Social vocal patterns.
(c) Surface explanations.
(d) The limits of vocabulary.

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

11. What form of structuralism organizes culture into certain, rule-based practices?
(a) Australian.
(b) English.
(c) French.
(d) Spanish.

12. Focault warned the masses to be wary of _________.
(a) Reading as a hobby.
(b) Poets as prophets.
(c) Words as gospel.
(d) Starving artists.

13. Modern Western literature can be traced to ______________.
(a) Russian Scholars.
(b) German Romantic theorists.
(c) French Writers and Artists.
(d) British Agnostic believers.

14. Who believed language is made up of a system of differences?
(a) Shakespeare.
(b) Ferdinand de Saussure.
(c) Jackson Shephardberg.
(d) Marlowe.

15. Cultural studies aim to demonstrate how people are affected by ___________.
(a) Artistic merit.
(b) Cultural forces.
(c) The lack of education.
(d) The lack of money.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What form of criticism believes that the understanding of text is contingent upon reader knowledge and experience?

3. For what types of literature has cultural studies gained new attention?

4. Theory rarely results in __________, according to Culler.

5. What theory believes that language limits the ability to think?

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