In what year did Ireland acquire national independence ?

Related Mcqs:

1. Which of the following refers to the small area of Ireland, extending north from Dublin, over which the English government could claim effective control ?

   A. Ulster
   B. the Protectorate
   C. the Pale
   D. West Britain

2. 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

3. How did Henry II, the first of England’s Plantagenet kings, acquire vast provinces in southern France ?

   A. the Battle of Hastings
   B. Saint Patrick’s mission
   C. the Fourth Lateran Council
   D. his marriage to Eleanor of Aquitaine

4. How did Henry II, the first of England’s Plantagenet kings, acquire vast provinces in southern France ?

   A. the Battle of Hastings
   B. Saint Patrick’s mission
   C. the Fourth Lateran Council
   D. his marriage to Eleanor of Aquitaine

5. The study of language and mind, which has greatly advanced our understanding of the way in which we acquire language is_________?

   A. Sociolinguistics
   B. Psycholinguisctics
   C. Biolinguistics
   D. None of these

   Submitted by: Abdul Sami Bhayo

6. From which year to which year that William Wordsworth served as the Poet Laureate of Britain ?

   A. 1843-1850
   B. 1840-1855
   C. 1842-1851
   D. 1833-1848

7. What was one theme in the period of independence ____________?

   A. national identity
   B. political conflicts
   C. urban and european vs indigenous and rural
   D. All the above

8. 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

9. 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

10. In what year did the Easter Rising occur ?

    A. 1901
    B. 1916
    C. 1922
    D. 1934