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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The way the plot is presented is referred to as the ________.
(a) Grand finale.
(b) Discourse.
(c) Denouement.
(d) Revelation.

2. Culler reports that the use of a genre can do what for a reader?
(a) Inspire creativity.
(b) Limit reading ability.
(c) Falsify facts.
(d) Create expectation.

3. What should a novel be according to Mikhail Bakhtin?
(a) Poetic.
(b) Singular.
(c) Short.
(d) Polyphonic.

4. According to Culler, what power is given to literature by literary performatives?
(a) The ability to cause chaos.
(b) The ability to make the present obsolete.
(c) The ability to change the world.
(d) The ability to understand the world.

5. What adjective describes a narrator who knows everything, even thoughts of other characters?
(a) Omniscient.
(b) Intuitive.
(c) Intelligent.
(d) Productive.

6. What should appear at the end of a novel according to "Chapter 6, Narrative"?
(a) A metaphor for love.
(b) A tie-in to the beginning.
(c) Acknowledgments.
(d) A reference to the narrator.

7. According to Chapter 6, what type of narration typically occurs when the point of view is limited?
(a) Accurate.
(b) Derisive.
(c) Fantastical.
(d) Unreliable.

8. What is accomplished by literary performatives, according to Culler?
(a) They educate theorists.
(b) All of these.
(c) They present various concepts.
(d) They create a state of affairs.

9. Who was J.L. Austin?
(a) An American linguist.
(b) A British philosopher.
(c) A Russian speaker.
(d) A French linguist.

10. In Culler's opinion, to what is rhetoric related?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Blasphemy.
(c) Poetics.
(d) Exaggeration.

11. Who is not a character in third-person narration?
(a) The antagonist.
(b) The narrator.
(c) The family members.
(d) The protagonist.

12. Who is the narrator in "What Maisie Knew"?
(a) An adult, through the eyes of a child.
(b) A child, through the eyes of an adult.
(c) A young woman.
(d) A young man.

13. What human need, according to Culler, drives the desire to hear the conclusion of a story?
(a) The need for conflict.
(b) The need for resolution.
(c) The need for love.
(d) The need for knowledge and understanding.

14. When a narrator only knows certain things, what is the narration called?
(a) Productive limited.
(b) Omniscient.
(c) Third person limited.
(d) Third person.

15. What is the literary device that is an over exaggeration of a word or idea?
(a) Hyperbole.
(b) Theme.
(c) Satire.
(d) Tone.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to theorists, being lumped into a group identity poses what risk to an individual?

2. According to Chapter 5, how should poems be read?

3. According to Cullers in Chapter 6, what form of literature has been studied the most in the 20th century?

4. What culture put literary works into only three groups?

5. According to Culler, theory demands a promise to keep ____________.

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