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Which British dominion achieved independence in 1921-22, following the Easter Rising of 1916 ?
A. the southern counties of Ireland
B. Canada
C. Ulster
D. India
Which British dominion achieved independence in 1921-22, following the Easter Rising of 1916 ?
A. the southern counties of Ireland
B. Canada
C. Ulster
D. India
Which of the following writers did not come from Ireland ?
A. W. B. Yeats
B. James Joyce
C. Seamus Heaney
D. none of the above
Which novel did T. S. Eliot praise for utilizing a new mythical methodin place of the old narrative methodand demonstrates the use of ancient mythology in modernist fiction to think about making the modern world possible for art ?
A. Virginia Woolf’s The Waves
B. Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
C. James Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake
D. James Joyce’s Ulysses
What did Henry James describe as “loose baggy monsters” ?
A. novels
B. plays
C. the English
D. publishers
How did one critic sum up Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot ?
A. “nothing happens-twice”
B. “political correctness gone mad”
C. “kitchen sink drama”
D. “angry young men
Which poet could be described as part of “The Movement” of the 1950s ?
A. Thom Gunn
B. Dylan Thomas
C. Philip Larkin
D. both A and C
Which of the following would be considered postcolonial novelists, defined as coming historically after the era of England’s large-scale imperialism ?
A. Salman Rushdie
B. Joseph Conrad
C. Rabindranath Tagore
D. John Ruskin
What did T. S. Eliot attempt to combine, though not very successfully, in his plays Murder in the Cathedral and The Cocktail Party ?
A. regional dialect and political critique
B. religious symbolism and society comedy
C. iambic pentameter and sexual innuendo
D. witty paradoxes and feminist diatribe
When was the ban finally lifted on D. H. Lawrence’s novel Lady Chatterley’s Lover, written in 1928?
A. 1930
B. 1945
C. 1960
D. 2000
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