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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following term best can be defined as one in which we cannot know where we are, since all the concepts which previously defined the center, and hence also the margins, have been "deconstructed," or undermined?
(a) Absurdism.
(b) Allegorical Interpretation.
(c) Decentered universe.
(d) Binary oppositions.

2. Author Peter Barry explains that all of the following are part of the three stages of the deconstructive process except for which one?
(a) Linguistic.
(b) Textual.
(c) Verbal.
(d) Visual.

3. According to Peter Barry, the ________ aspect of discourse is characterized not by logic and order, but by "displacement, slippage, condensation."
(a) Symbolic.
(b) Semiotic.
(c) Imaginary.
(d) Natural.

4. According to the narrator, post-colonial critics would discuss the representation of what country in Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness"?
(a) Ireland.
(b) Africa.
(c) Australia.
(d) America.

5. According to Peter Barry, where does post-structuralism ultimately derive from?
(a) Zoology.
(b) Pyschology.
(c) Physics.
(d) Philosophy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term does the narrator explain was a popular term in deconstructive criticism and literally means an impasse?

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

3. 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"?

4. Which of the following best fits the definition of a discipline which has always been inherently confident about the possibility of establishing objective knowledge?

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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