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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Kurt Vonnegut.
(c) Chinua Achebe.
(d) J.R.R. Tolkien.

2. 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) Eastern.
(b) Southern.
(c) Western.
(d) Northern.

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

4. A book in which author Peter Barry claimed to properly inaugurate post-colonial criticism was Edward Said's ________, which was a specific expose of the Eurocentric universalism which took for granted both the superiority of that which was European or Western.
(a) Existentialism.
(b) Phallocentrism.
(c) Pre-Raphaelitism.
(d) Orientalism.

5. Whom does Peter Barry credit with the suggestion that language used is gendered, so that when a woman turns to novel writing she finds that there is "no common sentence ready for her use"?
(a) Virginia Woolf.
(b) Margaret Atwood.
(c) Willa Cather.
(d) Evelyn Waugh.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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 ________.

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 in the chapter titled "Postcolonial Criticism," Frantz Fanon was a ________ from Martinique.

5. 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.

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