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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 do literary works offer their readers?
(a) Detailed plans on how to revolt.
(b) Appropriate names.
(c) Models of identity.
(d) None of these.

2. In Chapter 8, what forms of entertainment encourage feelings and virtue?
(a) All of these.
(b) Film.
(c) Television.
(d) Literature.

3. According to theorists, being lumped into a group identity poses what risk to an individual?
(a) Lack of originality.
(b) All of these.
(c) Lost individuality.
(d) A struggle to overcome stereotypes.

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

5. Who was against the ideas that performative language could be humorous?
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Derrida.
(c) Hemingway.
(d) Steinam.

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

7. When a novel contains situations that should be intolerable, what are readers prompted to defy?
(a) Social injustice.
(b) Authority.
(c) Personal convictions.
(d) Reading.

8. Who believed that performative language could be humorous?
(a) Austin.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Roe.

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. What is a typical theme in literature?
(a) Family demoralization.
(b) Character compassion.
(c) Deliberate violence.
(d) Character identity.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When it comes to the "I" created in society, theorists suggest that the "I" is subjected to what influences?

3. Who was Judith Butler?

4. According to Culler, poetry's imagery has the power of ____________.

5. For what type of performative theory was Judith Butler known?

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