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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following best fits the definition of a discipline which has always been inherently confident about the possibility of establishing objective knowledge?
(a) Mimesis.
(b) Linguistics.
(c) Formalism.
(d) Hermeneutics.

2. Author Peter Barry explains that all of the following are part of the three stages of the deconstructive process except for which one?
(a) Linguistic.
(b) Verbal.
(c) Visual.
(d) Textual.

3. 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) Iris Murdoch.
(c) Laurell K. Hamilton.
(d) Dale Spender.

4. The crucial essay "The Death of the Author" written in 1968 was the "hinge" around which ________ turned from structuralism to post-structuralism.
(a) Eddison.
(b) Barthes.
(c) Joyce.
(d) Johnson.

5. According to the narrator in the chapter titled "Feminist Criticism, the "Anglo-American" tradition appeared when?
(a) Mid 1980s.
(b) Early 1960s.
(c) Early 1990s.
(d) Late 1970s.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Peter Barry claim described the feminist change in the late 1970s as a shift of attention from "andro-texts" to "gyno-texts"?

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

3. ________ is defined as a discipline which has always tended to emphasize the difficulty of achieving secure knowledge about things.

4. According to Peter Barry in the chapter titled "Post-Structuralism and Deconstruction," post-structuralist critics seek to show that the text is characterized by ________ rather than unity.

5. The chapter "Feminist Criticism" informs the reader that "for her notion of the basic opposition between semiotic and the symbolic Kristeva was indebted to Jacques Lacan and his distinction between two realms, the ________ and the ________.

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