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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 form of criticism believes that the understanding of text is contingent upon reader knowledge and experience?
(a) Reader-awareness.
(b) Reader-response.
(c) Writer-response.
(d) Journal-revision.

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

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

4. According to Culler, what do literary theorists work to expose in literature?
(a) Bad writing.
(b) Underlying themes.
(c) Exceptional sentence structure.
(d) Inaccuracies.

5. Culler reports that some scholars are worried that isolation for readers may become __________.
(a) Angry.
(b) Wealthy.
(c) Too intelligent.
(d) Disengaged.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Chapter 2, which of the examples below cannot be considered literature?

2. According to studies, the majority of film and literature has been created from whose point of view?

3. Who believed that linguists have the ability to help others speak, read, and understand never seen before words and sentence structures?

4. English literature is known for being ____________.

5. Culler reports that people in the 19th century believed that the "true nature" of an individual could be found in his ___________.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Based on Chapter 1, what is the purpose of the critique that often comes from literary theory?

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

10. Why does Culler believe that Shakespeare has remained widely read and discussed while other writers from that time period have not?

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