View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What term does the narrator explain was a popular term in deconstructive criticism and literally means an impasse?
(a) Imagism.
(b) Langue.
(c) Parole.
(d) Aporia.

2. The chapter "Feminist Criticism" suggests that feminist criticism became much more ________, meaning that it began to draw upon the findings and approaches of other kinds of criticism.
(a) Perlocutionary.
(b) Eclectic.
(c) Rhetoric.
(d) Trope.

3. 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 ________.
(a) Imaginary / symbolic.
(b) Reference / referent.
(c) Syntagm / syntagmatic.
(d) Story / discourse.

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

5. 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) Pre-Raphaelitism.
(b) Phallocentrism.
(c) Existentialism.
(d) Orientalism.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the chapter titled Post-Structuralism and Deconstruction, structuralism derives ultimately from ________.

2. 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"?

3. Author Peter Barry explains that all of the following are part of the three stages of the deconstructive process except for which one?

4. According to the narrator, post-colonial critics would discuss the representation of what country in Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness"?

5. Who wrote the following statement, which is found in the chapter "Postcolonial Criticism": "We cannot easily say that since Mansfield Park is a novel, its affiliations with a particularly sordid history are irrelevant or transcended, not only because it is irresponsible to say that, but because we know too much to say so with bad faith"?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 322 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample