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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 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.

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

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

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

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) Willa Cather.
(b) Margaret Atwood.
(c) Evelyn Waugh.
(d) Virginia Woolf.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator explains that post-structuralism emerged in France in the late ________.

2. Author Peter Barry informs the reader that the feminist literary criticism of today was the direct product of the "women's movement" of the ________.

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

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. In the chapter titled Post-Structuralism and Deconstruction, whose famous remark on philosophy was, "There are no facts, only interpretations"?

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