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

2. Literature as an aesthetic object attempts to encourage the reader to explore a relationship between _____________.
(a) Desire and words.
(b) Content and form.
(c) Words and physical placement.
(d) Form and function.

3. What did Derrida discover in Rousseau's work?
(a) Many structures.
(b) Absolutes.
(c) Mystical images.
(d) Russian phrases.

4. For what types of literature has cultural studies gained new attention?
(a) Literature with cultural issues.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Literature with animal themes.
(d) Short form literature.

5. What is the purpose of literary theory, according to "What is Theory?"
(a) To prove writing wrong.
(b) To tame the masses.
(c) To reflect on ideas.
(d) To transcend ignorant readers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the goal of cultural studies, according to Chapter 3?

2. What is the absolute, end result of theory, as expressed in Chapter 1, "What is Theory?"

3. Thanks to cultural studies, what has happened to many previously discarded works?

4. In English literature, many lead characters were written in order to inspire ______________.

5. What, according to Culler, is unique about cultural studies?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is the goal of cultural studies?

6. Modern Western literature can be traced back to what group and when?

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

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

9. Why did Foucault consider "The History of Sexuality" to be repressed?

10. In Chapter 3, what are the two topics on which cultural studies and literary theory attempt to compromise?

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