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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) The Anglo-Americans.
(b) The African Americans.
(c) The Native Americans.
(d) The American Indians.

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

3. Who does Peter Barry claim described the feminist change in the late 1970s as a shift of attention from "andro-texts" to "gyno-texts"?
(a) Katherine Mansfield.
(b) Elaine Showalter.
(c) Jane Austen.
(d) Daisy Bates.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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 ________.

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. 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. 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.

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

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