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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. English literature is known for being ____________.
(a) Pastoral.
(b) Political.
(c) Inaccurate.
(d) Sentimental.
2. For what types of literature has cultural studies gained new attention?
(a) Literature with animal themes.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Short form literature.
(d) Literature with cultural issues.
3. What theory analyzes the relationship between mass culture and popular culture?
(a) European Marxist theory.
(b) American English.
(c) Russian Lennon theory.
(d) French socialism theory.
4. What theory believes that language limits the ability to think?
(a) Morton-Gran conjecture.
(b) Sisley-Spear formula.
(c) Johnson-Kater results.
(d) Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.
5. Rousseau was concerned that what form of communication could be easily misinterpreted?
(a) Singing.
(b) Speech.
(c) Speech and writing.
(d) Gossip.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the significance of published literature, according to Culler?
2. What form of criticism believes that the understanding of text is contingent upon reader knowledge and experience?
3. Culler reports that some scholars are worried that isolation for readers may become __________.
4. According to Chapter 2, literature must contain ____________ in order to qualify as literature.
5. According to Chapter 4, what effect should the words have on the reader?
Short Essay Questions
1. How do literary theorists explain the procedure used by poetics?
2. What is the goal of cultural studies?
3. According to Chapter 2, why was it significant that many works of English literature allowed the low class worker to surpass the aristocrat?
4. According to Chapter 4, "Meaning and Interpretation," what does society have to do with the understanding of words?
5. According to the Western culture, what does language help to express?
6. According to Chapter 3, how have cultural studies expanded the literary canon?
7. According to Rousseau's argument, what does writing have the power to clarify?
8. In Chapter 3, what are the two topics on which cultural studies and literary theory attempt to compromise?
9. According to Noam Chomsky, linguists help raise the quality of language for what purpose?
10. What factors determine what will be read by a particular society?
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