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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Thanks to cultural studies, the literary canon has succeeded in _____________.
(a) All of these.
(b) Attracting new readers.
(c) Growing.
(d) Bringing in timely literature.

2. According to Foucault, what form of communication had power over social ideals?
(a) Letters.
(b) Online resources.
(c) The newspaper.
(d) Literature.

3. What part of "The History of Sexuality" bothered Michel Foucault?
(a) Its graphic delivery.
(b) Its inaccurate information.
(c) Its repressive delivery.
(d) Its focus on the female.

4. Why are cultural studies and literary theory not at odds with each other?
(a) They stem from the same philosophy.
(b) They are from two different genres.
(c) They are static.
(d) They were invented by the same person.

5. Interpellation studies the effect of ______________ in shaping an individual's actions.
(a) Poverty.
(b) Being pigeonholed.
(c) Wealth.
(d) Being abused.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 2, it is suggested that British literature worked to do what among the classes?

2. Who created the theory of interpellation?

3. In what century did Rousseau write?

4. What type of study is approached clinically?

5. According to Chapter 2, which of the examples below cannot be considered literature?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do theorists mean when they say that a reader is limited by his "horizon of expectations"?

2. What was the theme of Goethe's work as discussed in "Chapter 1, What is Theory"?

3. According to the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, what does language determine?

4. What types of writing topics have been used to create literary theory and why?

5. When was literature used in Britain to control the masses?

6. What factors determine what will be read by a particular society?

7. Theorists believe it is important to challenge ideas presented in literature for what reason?

8. According to Chapter 2, why was it significant that many works of English literature allowed the low class worker to surpass the aristocrat?

9. Why is there concern that cultural study may surpass literary theory?

10. According to Chapter 2, what style and subject make up literature?

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