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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Culler, what is rhetoric?
(a) The study of scholarly rules.
(b) The study of language technique.
(c) The study of fictional essays.
(d) The study of poetry.

2. For what type of performative theory was Judith Butler known?
(a) Political climate.
(b) Gender and sexuality.
(c) Religious phrasing.
(d) Roles in the workforce.

3. In literature, what is it called when events take place opposite of expectation?
(a) Alliteration.
(b) Point of view.
(c) Flashback.
(d) Irony.

4. Poetry has the capability to influence what in its reader, according to Culler?
(a) Overwhelming empathy.
(b) Intense sorrow.
(c) Great joy.
(d) All of these.

5. Who was Judith Butler?
(a) An American philospher.
(b) A famous French speaker.
(c) A Harvard professor.
(d) A published fiction writer.

6. In relationship to the "I" what does Culler suggest is a constant debate?
(a) If it matters.
(b) What it means.
(c) Why it is important.
(d) Where it originates.

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

8. When did J.L. Austin define the distinction between the various forms of utterance?
(a) The 1400s.
(b) The 1920s.
(c) The 1870s.
(d) The 1950s.

9. In Chapter 8, how is the true nature of a character often revealed in literature?
(a) Through the past.
(b) Through personal challenges.
(c) Through a dramatic revelation.
(d) Through family.

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

11. In Chapter 7, performative language phrases are not required to be _____________.
(a) Interesting.
(b) Popular.
(c) None of these.
(d) Intra-dependent.

12. Instead of providing tested solutions, Culler teaches that theory aims to ____________.
(a) Eliminate shortcomings.
(b) Refute these solutions.
(c) Stimulate thought.
(d) Revolutionize literature.

13. Who asserts that the interpretation of metaphor is often reliant upon another metaphor?
(a) Marlowe.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Derrida.
(d) Shakespeare.

14. According to Chapter 8, what is the debate surrounding the "I" on a personal level?
(a) All of these.
(b) Free will vs. written influence.
(c) Free will vs. predetermined choices.
(d) Free will vs. parental influence.

15. Who is Mikhail Bakhtin?
(a) A Roman philospher.
(b) An American writer.
(c) A French theorist.
(d) A Russian theorist.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Culler, what attracts readers to a character?

2. What form of narration tells a story from an "I" point of view?

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

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

5. Using a word to represent a person, title, group, or similar is the use of __________.

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