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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 Post-Structuralism and Deconstruction, whose famous remark on philosophy was, "There are no facts, only interpretations"?
(a) Galileo Galilei.
(b) Nietzsche.
(c) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(d) Ralph Waldo Emerson.

2. 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) William Faulkner.
(b) J.R.R. Tolkien.
(c) Chinua Achebe.
(d) Kurt Vonnegut.

3. From which of Babara Johnson's literary pieces can the following definition of deconstructive reading be found according to author Peter Barry: "Deconstruction is not synonymous with 'destruction.' It is in fact much closer to the original meaning of the word 'analysis,' which etymologically means 'to undo'"?
(a) The Age of Innocence.
(b) Of Grammatology.
(c) The Critical Difference.
(d) Trustee from the Toolroom.

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) Katherine Mansfield.
(b) Elaine Showalter.
(c) Daisy Bates.
(d) Jane Austen.

5. 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) Laurell K. Hamilton.
(b) Evelyn Waugh.
(c) Iris Murdoch.
(d) Dale Spender.

Short Answer Questions

1. The ancestry of post-colonial criticism can be traced to Frantz Fanon's ________, published in French in 1961, and voicing what might be called "cultural resistance" to France's African empire.

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

3. According to the narrator, post-colonial critics would discuss the representation of what country in Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness"?

4. According to the narrator, post-colonial criticism gained currency through the influence of all the following books except for which one?

5. 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"?

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