Which of the following writers did not come from Ireland ?

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. In what year did Ireland acquire national independence ?

   A. 1847
   B. 1893
   C. 1906
   D. 1922

3. In addition to Geoffrey Chaucer and William Langland, the \flowering\of Middle English literature is evident in the works of which of the following writers ?

   A. Geoffrey of Monmouth
   B. the Gawain poet
   C. the Beowulf poet
   D. Chr´tien de Troyes

4. In addition to Geoffrey Chaucer and William Langland, the “flowering”of Middle English literature is evident in the works of which of the following writers ?

   A. Geoffrey of Monmouth
   B. the Gawain poet
   C. the Beowulf poet
   D. Chrétien de Troyes

5. Which of the following describes the chief system by which writers received financial rewards for their literary production ?

   A. charity
   B. patronage
   C. censorship
   D. subscription

6. Which of the following best describes the sort of language and tone most often used when Romantic writers discuss the French Revolution ?

   A. snide indifference
   B. biblical reverence
   C. condemning censure
   D. satirical derision

7. Which of the following Victorian writers regularly published their work in periodicals ?

   A. Thomas Carlyle
   B. Matthew Arnold
   C. Charles Dickens
   D. all of the above.

8. Which of the following Victorian writers regularly published their work in periodicals ?

   A. Thomas Carlyle
   B. Matthew Arnold
   C. Charles Dickens
   D. all of the above

9. Which thinker had a major impact on early-twentieth-century writers, leading them to re-imagine human identity in radically new ways ?

   A. Sigmund Freud
   B. Sir James Frazer
   C. Immanuel Kant
   D. all but C

10. 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