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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 Peter Barry, where does post-structuralism ultimately derive from?
(a) Pyschology.
(b) Zoology.
(c) Physics.
(d) Philosophy.

2. 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) Indeterminacy.
(b) Discourse.
(c) Genre.
(d) Disunity.

3. W.B. Yeats was a member of the ________ ruling class in ________, according to the narrator in the chapter titled "Postcolonial Criticism."
(a) Protestant / Ireland.
(b) Jewish / Poland.
(c) Amish / Sweden.
(d) Aethist / America.

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) U.S.A. (trilogy).
(c) The Grapes of Wrath.
(d) The Wreched of the Earth.

5. From which of Babara Johnson's literary pieces can the following definition of deconstructive reading be found according to author Peter Barry: "Deconstruction is not synonymous with 'destruction.' It is in fact much closer to the original meaning of the word 'analysis,' which etymologically means 'to undo'"?
(a) Of Grammatology.
(b) The Critical Difference.
(c) The Age of Innocence.
(d) Trustee from the Toolroom.

Short Answer Questions

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

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. 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.

4. 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?

5. In Julia Kristeva's essay "The System and the Speaking Subject," the ________ aspect is associated with authority, order, fathers, repression, and control.

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