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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.
(a) Northern.
(b) Western.
(c) Eastern.
(d) Southern.

2. 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.

3. What term does the narrator explain was a popular term in deconstructive criticism and literally means an impasse?
(a) Aporia.
(b) Parole.
(c) Langue.
(d) Imagism.

4. According to Plato, "a state of language anterior to the Word" is called ________.
(a) Chora.
(b) Surrealism.
(c) Semiotic.
(d) Organic form.

5. According to the chapter titled "Postcolonial Criticism," in its earliest phase, post-colonial criticism took as its main subject matter ________ representations of colonial countries and criticized these for their limitations and their bias.
(a) Gray.
(b) Black.
(c) Red.
(d) White.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Julia Kristeva's essay "The System and the Speaking Subject," the ________ aspect is associated with authority, order, fathers, repression, and control.

2. Author Peter Barry explains that all of the following are part of the three stages of the deconstructive process except for which one?

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

4. 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.

5. According to the narrator in the chapter titled "Feminist Criticism, the "Anglo-American" tradition appeared when?

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