20th Century

A. popular; reverenced
B. brash; confident
C. radical; inventive
D. anxious; haunting

A. regional dialect and political critique
B. religious symbolism and society comedy
C. iambic pentameter and sexual innuendo
D. witty paradoxes and feminist diatribe

A. the southern counties of Ireland
B. Canada
C. Ulster
D. India

A. eugenics
B. psychoanalysis
C. phrenology
D. all of the above

A. Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity
B. wireless communication across the Atlantic
C. the creation of the internet
D. the invention of the airplane

A. the emergence of a mass literate population at whom a new mass-produced literature could be directed
B. a new market for basic textbooks which paid better than sophisticated novels or plays
C. a popular thirst for the “classics,” driving contemporary writers to the margins
D. a, b and c

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

A. the rise of workshops and the collaborative ethos
B. the diversifying impact of playwrights from the former colonies
C. the death of the musical
D. all but C

A. the Irish National Theatre
B. the Globe Theatre
C. the Abbey Theatre
D. both A and C