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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

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

4. Using a word to represent a person, title, group, or similar is the use of __________.
(a) Trope Metonymy.
(b) Synecdoche.
(c) Bibliomancy.
(d) Anthropomorphism.

5. What great thinker believed plot to be the most significant part of a story?
(a) Plato.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Beauvoir.
(d) Voltaire.

6. In literature, what is learned when a character "finds" himself?
(a) All of these.
(b) Where he is standing.
(c) To whom he is related.
(d) Who he is.

7. According to Chapter 5, what is the goal in using a metaphor?
(a) To confuse with whimsy.
(b) To outrage the reader.
(c) To invoke emotion.
(d) To make the reader think.

8. Who said "the child is father to the man"?
(a) Wordsworth.
(b) Yeats.
(c) Cummings.
(d) Wilkes.

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

10. What presents a story through the use of verbal patterning?
(a) Theme.
(b) Lyric.
(c) Movement.
(d) Paragraph.

11. According to Culler, when it comes to performative language, words create their own __________.
(a) Humorous take on humanity.
(b) Reality.
(c) Plot and story function.
(d) Legacy for a situation.

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

13. What type of poetry allows the reader to listen in on the narrator's thoughts?
(a) Nursery rhymes.
(b) None of these.
(c) Limericks.
(d) Lyric poetry.

14. Culler suggests that the occasional confusion that results from the use of metaphor is due to __________.
(a) The lyricism of the phrase.
(b) A literal interpretation.
(c) The invention of new words.
(d) Repeat metaphors.

15. According to Chapter 6, what type of narrator do readers most trust?
(a) An unbiased narrator.
(b) A well-known narrator.
(c) An educated narrator.
(d) An honest narrator.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the literary device that substitutes a part for the whole or vice versa?

2. According to Nancy Armstrong, feelings and personal qualities in characters became more important than _____________.

3. According to Culler, what do many novels teach about heartache?

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

5. In the 20th century, what is the most popular form of literature, according to Culler?

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