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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Peter Barry explains that post-colonial criticism emerges as a distinct category only in the ________.
(a) 1950s.
(b) 1990s.
(c) 2000s.
(d) 1970s.

3. 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) White.
(b) Red.
(c) Gray.
(d) Black.

4. The narrator explains that post-structuralism emerged in France in the late ________.
(a) 1970s.
(b) 1930s.
(c) 1990s.
(d) 1960s.

5. 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.
(a) U.S.A. (trilogy).
(b) The Wreched of the Earth.
(c) An American Tragedy.
(d) The Grapes of Wrath.

Short Answer 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?

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

3. The crucial essay "The Death of the Author" written in 1968 was the "hinge" around which ________ turned from structuralism to post-structuralism.

4. According to Peter Barry in the chapter titled "Postcolonial Criticism," Frantz Fanon was a ________ from Martinique.

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

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