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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Postcolonial criticism.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The thesis that the language is "masculine" was developed by ________ in the early 1980s in her book "Man Made Language," which also argues that language is not a neutral medium.
(a) Evelyn Waugh.
(b) Laurell K. Hamilton.
(c) Dale Spender.
(d) Iris Murdoch.

2. The chapter "Postcolonial Criticism" states that post-colonial critics celebrate hybridity and ________, which is the situation whereby individuals and groups belong simultaneously to more than one culture.
(a) Cultural polyvalency.
(b) Affective fallacy.
(c) Constative language.
(d) Decorum.

3. A book in which author Peter Barry claimed to properly inaugurate post-colonial criticism was Edward Said's ________, which was a specific expose of the Eurocentric universalism which took for granted both the superiority of that which was European or Western.
(a) Orientalism.
(b) Pre-Raphaelitism.
(c) Phallocentrism.
(d) Existentialism.

4. Who does Peter Barry claim described the feminist change in the late 1970s as a shift of attention from "andro-texts" to "gyno-texts"?
(a) Elaine Showalter.
(b) Katherine Mansfield.
(c) Jane Austen.
(d) Daisy Bates.

5. What was the name of the Nigerian novelist who published his first novel, "Things Fall Apart," in 1958, and was criticized by an early reviewer for affecting identity with African villagers?
(a) Chinua Achebe.
(b) Kurt Vonnegut.
(c) J.R.R. Tolkien.
(d) William Faulkner.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Peter Barry, where does post-structuralism ultimately derive from?

2. Which of the following best fits the definition of a discipline which has always been inherently confident about the possibility of establishing objective knowledge?

3. Author Peter Barry explains that post-colonial critics reject the claims to universalism made on behalf of canonical _________ literature and seek to show its limitations of outlook.

4. According to Plato, "a state of language anterior to the Word" is called ________.

5. According to Peter Barry, the ________ aspect of discourse is characterized not by logic and order, but by "displacement, slippage, condensation."

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