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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 literary approach begins a work with no preconceived ideas in an effort to discover its meaning?
(a) Justification.
(b) Translation.
(c) Poetics.
(d) Hermeneutics.

2. Who believed that linguists have the ability to help others speak, read, and understand never seen before words and sentence structures?
(a) Guy Roach.
(b) Noam Chomsky.
(c) Samson McHenry.
(d) Beuford Wether.

3. According to Chapter 4, what effect should the words have on the reader?
(a) An emotional response.
(b) All of these.
(c) An effect on imagination.
(d) A subliminal message.

4. What type of study is approached clinically?
(a) Literary.
(b) Nomanclature.
(c) Cultural.
(d) Poetry.

5. In Chapter 1, "What is Theory?" Culler defines theory as the opportunity to __________.
(a) Speculate.
(b) Wonder.
(c) All of these.
(d) Guess.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Chapter 1, what does literary theory often critique?

2. Who wrote "Jane Eyre"?

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

4. Readers often respond emotionally to a particular use of language due to _____________.

5. What form of structuralism organizes culture into certain, rule-based practices?

Short Essay Questions

1. According to Chapter 3, how have cultural studies expanded the literary canon?

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

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

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

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

6. According to Noam Chomsky, linguists help raise the quality of language for what purpose?

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

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

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

10. In what way do word conventions vary globally?

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