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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Jane Austen.
(b) Elaine Showalter.
(c) Katherine Mansfield.
(d) Daisy Bates.

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

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

4. 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"?
(a) Gates.
(b) Freud.
(c) Said.
(d) Marx.

5. 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"?
(a) Evelyn Waugh.
(b) Margaret Atwood.
(c) Virginia Woolf.
(d) Willa Cather.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the narrator, post-colonial criticism gained currency through the influence of all the following books except for which one?

2. 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?

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

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

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

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