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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
Which thinker had a major impact on early-twentieth-century writers, leading them to reimagine human identity in radically new ways?
A. Sigmund Freud
B. Sir James Frazer
C. Immanuel Kant
D. all but C
What did Henry James describe as loose baggy monsters ?
A. novels
B. plays
C. the English
D. publishers
Who wrote the dystopian novel Nineteen- Eighty-Four in which Newspeak demonstrates the heightened linguistic selfconsciousness of modernist writers ?
A. George Orwell
B. Virginia Woolf
C. Evelyn Waugh
D. Orson Wells
Which of the following novels display postwar nostalgia for past imperial glory ?
A. E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India
B. Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea
C. Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
D. Paul Scott’s Staying On
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 of the following was originally the Irish Literary Theatre ?
A. the Irish National Theatre
B. the Independent Theatre
C. the Abbey Theatre
D. both A and C
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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