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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. What has literary theory tried to do for the classics?
(a) Save them.
(b) Insult them.
(c) Make them into movies.
(d) Censor them.

2. English literature is known for being ____________.
(a) Pastoral.
(b) Political.
(c) Sentimental.
(d) Inaccurate.

3. According to Chapter 2, "What is Literature and Does it Matter?" what makes up the bulk of written work prior to modern literature?
(a) Letters and sermons.
(b) Sermons.
(c) Letters.
(d) Prayers.

4. What type of literary work is "Jane Eyre"?
(a) Narrative-fiction.
(b) Fiction.
(c) Expansive-fiction.
(d) Non-fiction.

5. Culler reports that people in the 19th century believed that the "true nature" of an individual could be found in his ___________.
(a) Lineage.
(b) Sex.
(c) History.
(d) DNA.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Chapter 2, when a story is told with non-fiction historical references, it is __________.

2. What theory analyzes the relationship between mass culture and popular culture?

3. In the West, most theorists believe language allows for _____________.

4. What idea did Rousseau help to develop?

5. For what types of literature has cultural studies gained new attention?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How do literary theorists explain the procedure used by poetics?

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

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

6. According to Rousseau's argument, what does writing have the power to clarify?

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

8. Does pop culture change the relevance of classical literature?

9. According to theorists, what power does literature hold over society and why?

10. Why is publishing considered a stamp of approval on a literary work?

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