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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Amish / Sweden.
(c) Aethist / America.
(d) Jewish / Poland.

2. Which of the following term best can be defined as one in which we cannot know where we are, since all the concepts which previously defined the center, and hence also the margins, have been "deconstructed," or undermined?
(a) Binary oppositions.
(b) Decentered universe.
(c) Absurdism.
(d) Allegorical Interpretation.

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

4. Author Peter Barry explains that all of the following are part of the three stages of the deconstructive process except for which one?
(a) Linguistic.
(b) Verbal.
(c) Visual.
(d) Textual.

5. ________ is defined as a discipline which has always tended to emphasize the difficulty of achieving secure knowledge about things.
(a) Criminology.
(b) Sociology.
(c) Psychology.
(d) Philosophy.

Short Answer Questions

1. The crucial essay "The Death of the Author" written in 1968 was the "hinge" around which ________ turned from structuralism to post-structuralism.

2. Who does Peter Barry claim described the feminist change in the late 1970s as a shift of attention from "andro-texts" to "gyno-texts"?

3. 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.

4. 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"?

5. What term does the narrator explain was a popular term in deconstructive criticism and literally means an impasse?

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