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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to Chapter 8, what is the product of a subject's inner core?
(a) The natural individual.
(b) The core individual.
(c) The false individual.
(d) The select individual.

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

4. According to Chapter 6, what do readers seem to enjoy in narratives?
(a) Interesting characters.
(b) A satisfying conclusion.
(c) Plot twists.
(d) All of these.

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

6. What is the literary device that substitutes a part for the whole or vice versa?
(a) Spoonerism.
(b) Doppleganger.
(c) Synecdoche.
(d) Amplification.

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

8. Who created "the mirror stage" theory?
(a) Emily Larson.
(b) Jacques Lacan.
(c) Peter McGregor.
(d) Roofus Duff.

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

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

11. What culture put literary works into only three groups?
(a) The Romans.
(b) The Americans.
(c) The Swiss.
(d) The Greeks.

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

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

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

15. What era defined rhetoric as "the art of eloquence"?
(a) The Industrial Age.
(b) The Renaissance.
(c) The Modern Age.
(d) The Dark Ages.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was J.L. Austin?

2. Why do theorists study performance utterances?

3. The way the plot is presented is referred to as the ________.

4. According to Culler, when it comes to performative language, what is required to give a word or a phrase weight?

5. What human need, according to Culler, drives the desire to hear the conclusion of a story?

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