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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 human need, according to Culler, drives the desire to hear the conclusion of a story?
(a) The need for knowledge and understanding.
(b) The need for resolution.
(c) The need for love.
(d) The need for conflict.

2. Who asserts that the interpretation of metaphor is often reliant upon another metaphor?
(a) Shakespeare.
(b) Derrida.
(c) Socrates.
(d) Marlowe.

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

4. Who created "the mirror stage" theory?
(a) Emily Larson.
(b) Roofus Duff.
(c) Jacques Lacan.
(d) Peter McGregor.

5. When it comes to the "I" created in society, theorists suggest that the "I" is subjected to what influences?
(a) All of these.
(b) Social.
(c) Sexual.
(d) Linguistic.

Short Answer Questions

1. What should appear at the end of a novel according to "Chapter 6, Narrative"?

2. What culture put literary works into only three groups?

3. When a narrator only knows certain things, what is the narration called?

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

5. Who is not a character in third-person narration?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do some theorists believe that popular characterizations in novels create bad influences?

2. What is first-person narration?

3. According to Chapter 6, from where does unreliable narration typically come?

4. Who believed that performative language had to be serious in order to set a standard?

5. Who created a portrait of the "modern individual"?

6. According to theorists, what gives the reader the most pleasure when reading a novel?

7. In terms of the "I," what do literary works offer?

8. What is the role of the narrator limited?

9. According to Aristotle, what three points must be contained within a plot?

10. In terms of the "I," what is the product of someone's core?

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