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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The crucial essay "The Death of the Author" written in 1968 was the "hinge" around which ________ turned from structuralism to post-structuralism.
(a) Barthes.
(b) Eddison.
(c) Joyce.
(d) Johnson.

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

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

4. 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.
(a) Genre.
(b) Indeterminacy.
(c) Disunity.
(d) Discourse.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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.

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

3. W.B. Yeats was a member of the ________ ruling class in ________, according to the narrator in the chapter titled "Postcolonial Criticism."

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

5. In the chapter titled "Feminist Criticism," which group did author Peter Barry say maintained a major interest in traditional critical concepts like theme, motif, and characterization?

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