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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. According to the majority of theorists, who has the power to determine what can be known as literature?
(a) Readers.
(b) Scholars.
(c) Society.
(d) Professors.

2. Some scholars fear that literature could inspire _____________.
(a) All of these.
(b) Change.
(c) Individuality.
(d) Rebellion.

3. Thanks to cultural studies, what has happened to many previously discarded works?
(a) They were revamped.
(b) They were rediscovered.
(c) All of these.
(d) They were debated in schools.

4. Who believed language is made up of a system of differences?
(a) Marlowe.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) Jackson Shephardberg.
(d) Ferdinand de Saussure.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Culler reports that cultural studies typically focus on the lifestyle of whom?

2. What type of literary work is "Jane Eyre"?

3. English literature is known for being ____________.

4. In Chapter 2, what does fiction aim to achieve?

5. What literary form do parts of Robert Burns' poetry imitate?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 2, why are the use of words and language so meaningful to literature?

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

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

4. According to the Western culture, what does language help to express?

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

6. What does literary theory work to uncover, according to Chapter 1?

7. In what way do word conventions vary globally?

8. According to Chapter 4, "Meaning and Interpretation," what does society have to do with the understanding of words?

9. According to Chapter 4, what does "reader-response" criticism depend upon?

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

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