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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Julia Kristeva's essay "The System and the Speaking Subject," the ________ aspect is associated with authority, order, fathers, repression, and control.
(a) Imaginary.
(b) Symbolic.
(c) Semiotic.
(d) Natural.

2. According to Peter Barry in the chapter titled "Postcolonial Criticism," Frantz Fanon was a ________ from Martinique.
(a) Psychiatrist.
(b) Cardiologist.
(c) Podiatrist.
(d) Paleontologist.

3. Which of the following best fits the definition of a discipline which has always been inherently confident about the possibility of establishing objective knowledge?
(a) Formalism.
(b) Hermeneutics.
(c) Linguistics.
(d) Mimesis.

4. 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.
(a) An American Tragedy.
(b) The Grapes of Wrath.
(c) The Wreched of the Earth.
(d) U.S.A. (trilogy).

5. Barry states in the chapter titled "Feminist Criticism" that the British "socialist feminist" tradition produced its key works in the ________.
(a) Late 1950s.
(b) Mid 1980s.
(c) Early 1970s.
(d) Late 1990s.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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.

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

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

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

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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