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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 culture put literary works into only three groups?
(a) The Swiss.
(b) The Romans.
(c) The Greeks.
(d) The Americans.
2. In Chapter 8, how is the true nature of a character often revealed in literature?
(a) Through personal challenges.
(b) Through a dramatic revelation.
(c) Through the past.
(d) Through family.
3. According to Chapter 6, what is the desired result after conflict within a novel?
(a) A plot twist.
(b) Resolution.
(c) A sudden romance.
(d) More conflict.
4. According to Culler, what attracts readers to a character?
(a) Empathy.
(b) A desire to learn from him.
(c) All of these.
(d) Interest in their struggles.
5. According to Culler, what is a classic ideal that appears in many novels?
(a) True love.
(b) A moral lesson.
(c) Understanding of oneself.
(d) Truth and justice.
Short Answer Questions
1. Why do theorists study performance utterances?
2. According to Nancy Armstrong, what is a product of 18th century novels?
3. What is the literary device that substitutes a part for the whole or vice versa?
4. The use of what literary device requires the combination of language and imagination?
5. According to Chapter 5, how should poems be read?
Short Essay Questions
1. According to Chapter 5, genre is very important to a reader. Why?
2. Into what three classes did the Greeks divide literature?
3. Why do some theorists believe that popular characterizations in novels create bad influences?
4. What is poetics, as explained by "Chapter 5, Rhetoric, Poetics, and Poetry"?
5. According to Chapter 8, in terms of the "I," what do literary theorists debate?
6. Who created a portrait of the "modern individual"?
7. How does a rhetorical figure use language in poetry?
8. In terms of the "I," what do literary works offer?
9. According to Chapter 7, who developed the idea of performative language?
10. What is the ultimate goal of literary theory, according to "Chapter 8, Identity, Identification, and the Subject"?
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