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1. Which British dominion achieved independence in 1921-22, following the Easter Rising of 1916?
2. Which of the following has been a significant development in British theater since the abolition of censorship in 1968?
3. Which phrase indicates the interior flow of thought employed in high-modern literature?
4. Which poet could be described as part of 'The Movement' of the 1950s?
5. Which best describes the imagist movement, exemplified in the work of T. E. Hulme and Ezra Pound?
6. What event allowed mainstream theater companies to commission and perform work that was politically, socially, and sexually controversial without fear of censorship?
7. Which text exemplifies the anti-Victorianism prevalent in the early twentieth century?
8. What was the impact on literature of the Education Act of 1870, which made elementary schooling compulsory?
9. In what decade did the 'angry young men' come to prominence on the theatrical scene?
10. Which of the following novels display postwar nostalgia for past imperial glory?
11. Which of the following would be considered postcolonial novelists, defined as coming historically after the era of England's large-scale imperialism?
12. In the 1930s, younger writers such as W. H. Auden were more ….. but less ….. than older modernists such as Eliot and Pound.
13. Which of the following is not associated with high modernism in the novel?
14. With which enormously influential perspective or practice is the early-twentieth-century thinker Sigmund Freud associated?
15. In the 1930s, younger writers such as W. H. Auden were more ….. but less ….. than older modernists such as Eliot and Pound
16. Who wrote the dystopian novel Nineteen-Eighty-Four in which Newspeak demonstrates the heightened linguistic self-consciousness of modernist writers?
17. How did one critic sum up Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot?
18. What did Henry James describe as 'loose baggy monsters'?
19. What event allowed mainstream theater companies to commission and perform work that was politically, socially, and sexually controversial without fear of censorship?
20. Which of the following writers did not come from Ireland?
21. Which thinker had a major impact on early-twentieth-century writers, leading them to re-imagine human identity in radically new ways?
22. Which of the following phrases best characterizes the late-nineteenth century aesthetic movement which widened the breach between artists and the reading public, sowing the seeds of modernism?
23. Which events in and after the 1960s contributed significantly to the decentralization of England from London to a more regional focus, ultimately also making way for a less homogenous vision of England and the popularity of postcolonial fiction?
24. Which scientific or technological advance did not take place in the first fifteen years of the twentieth century?
25. Which phrase indicates the interior flow of thought employed in high-modern literature?

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