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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. According to Culler, poetry's imagery has the power of ____________.
(a) Support from scholars.
(b) Judgment.
(c) Literary advancement.
(d) Persuasion.

3. According to Chapter 7, a declarative statement that promises action can be defined as ________________.
(a) Performative viewpoint.
(b) Performative utterance.
(c) Performative thought.
(d) Performative action.

4. In relationship to the "I" what does Culler suggest is a constant debate?
(a) If it matters.
(b) What it means.
(c) Where it originates.
(d) Why it is important.

5. According to Chapter 5, how should poems be read?
(a) All at once.
(b) By the author.
(c) In private.
(d) In sections.

6. According to Chapter 6, what do strong characters encourage readers to imagine?
(a) How to be better writers.
(b) Other people's lives.
(c) The conclusion of the story.
(d) A proper literary form.

7. What is the literary device that is an over exaggeration of a word or idea?
(a) Theme.
(b) Satire.
(c) Hyperbole.
(d) Tone.

8. According to Chapter 6, what type of narrator do readers most trust?
(a) An honest narrator.
(b) An unbiased narrator.
(c) An educated narrator.
(d) A well-known narrator.

9. What type of lyric is used in sublime poetry?
(a) Advanced lyric.
(b) Extravagant lyric.
(c) Prolonged lyric.
(d) Foolish lyric.

10. What is a typical theme in literature?
(a) Character identity.
(b) Deliberate violence.
(c) Character compassion.
(d) Family demoralization.

11. According to Chapter 5, why is rhythm important to a poem?
(a) It creates mystery.
(b) It confuses the reader.
(c) It repels the reader.
(d) It draws in the reader.

12. For what type of performative theory was Judith Butler known?
(a) Religious phrasing.
(b) Gender and sexuality.
(c) Roles in the workforce.
(d) Political climate.

13. Who said "the child is father to the man"?
(a) Wilkes.
(b) Wordsworth.
(c) Yeats.
(d) Cummings.

14. According to Culler, what is rhetoric?
(a) The study of language technique.
(b) The study of fictional essays.
(c) The study of poetry.
(d) The study of scholarly rules.

15. Who defined rhetoric as "the art of persuasion"?
(a) Raphael.
(b) Michelangelo.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Socrates.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Nancy Armstrong?

2. What presents a story through the use of verbal patterning?

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

4. According to some theorists, what idea was created by literature?

5. Culler reports that the use of a genre can do what for a reader?

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