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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, Performative Language.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was Judith Butler?
(a) A famous French speaker.
(b) A published fiction writer.
(c) An American philospher.
(d) A Harvard professor.

2. What type of poetry allows the reader to listen in on the narrator's thoughts?
(a) Limericks.
(b) Nursery rhymes.
(c) None of these.
(d) Lyric poetry.

3. English literature is known for being ____________.
(a) Sentimental.
(b) Pastoral.
(c) Inaccurate.
(d) Political.

4. In the West, most theorists believe language allows for _____________.
(a) Intimacy.
(b) Communication.
(c) Brotherhood.
(d) Thought expression.

5. Rousseau was concerned that what form of communication could be easily misinterpreted?
(a) Gossip.
(b) Singing.
(c) Speech.
(d) Speech and writing.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Chapter 3, what creates tension within cultural studies?

2. According to Culler, poetry's imagery has the power of ____________.

3. Literature, according to Culler, has the ability to do what for ideology?

4. What is the literary device that substitutes a part for the whole or vice versa?

5. When a novel contains situations that should be intolerable, what are readers prompted to defy?

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