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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. Literature, according to Culler, has the ability to do what for ideology?
(a) Praise it.
(b) All of these.
(c) Elevate it.
(d) Destory it.

2. According to Chapter 4, what effect should the words have on the reader?
(a) A subliminal message.
(b) An effect on imagination.
(c) All of these.
(d) An emotional response.

3. What has literary theory tried to do for the classics?
(a) Save them.
(b) Insult them.
(c) Censor them.
(d) Make them into movies.

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

5. According to Chapter 2, literature must contain ____________ in order to qualify as literature.
(a) Biblical references.
(b) Words with a deeper meaning.
(c) Proper sentence structure.
(d) Social reform.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote "Jane Eyre"?

2. In what century did Rousseau write?

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

4. What idea did Rousseau help to develop?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is publishing considered a stamp of approval on a literary work?

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

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

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

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

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

7. In what way do word conventions vary globally?

8. How do literary theorists explain the procedure used by poetics?

9. According to theorists, what power does literature hold over society and why?

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

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