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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the chapter titled "Feminist Criticism," which group did author Peter Barry say maintained a major interest in traditional critical concepts like theme, motif, and characterization?
(a) The African Americans.
(b) The Anglo-Americans.
(c) The American Indians.
(d) The Native Americans.

2. Who wrote the following statement, which is found in the chapter "Postcolonial Criticism": "We cannot easily say that since Mansfield Park is a novel, its affiliations with a particularly sordid history are irrelevant or transcended, not only because it is irresponsible to say that, but because we know too much to say so with bad faith"?
(a) Said.
(b) Freud.
(c) Marx.
(d) Gates.

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

4. 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) Decorum.
(b) Constative language.
(c) Cultural polyvalency.
(d) Affective fallacy.

5. According to the narrator, post-colonial criticism gained currency through the influence of all the following books except for which one?
(a) The Empire Writes Back.
(b) In Other Worlds.
(c) Nation and Narration.
(d) The Studs Lonigan Trilogy.

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 the chapter titled Post-Structuralism and Deconstruction, structuralism derives ultimately from ________.

3. 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.

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

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?

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