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Chapter 1
THE ANGLO-NORMAN LEGACY
1. Strongbow conquered much of the east, including:
a) Oriel, Dublin, Ulidia
b) Waterford, Wexford, and Dublin
c) Wexford, Leinster, Oriel
Chapter 2
ENGLAND’S “OTHER”: INSCRIBING AND RE- INSCRIBING IRELAND’S STORY
1. Henry VIII is declared King of Ireland in the year:
a) 1649
b) 1654
c) 1551
Chapter 3
COLONIALISM AND THE NATIONALIST IMAGINARY
4. The play Cathleen Ni Houlihan, written by William Butler Yeats’s use of what Valente
calls:
a) double-woman trope
b) dynamic tension
c) naturalistic precision
Chapter 4
PROTESTANTLITERARYTROPES: THE‘BIG HOUSE’
1. Drama The Big House offers scenes from the recent life of a Big House family, which
span the years :
a) 1926 and 1937
b) 1918 and 1923
c) 1923 and 1937
2. During the Anglo-Irish War and the subsequent Irish Civil War:
a) many stately homes of the old landed class were burned down
b) subsequent failures of the potato resulted in the death of as many as 1,000,000 Irish
c) was abolished the Irish Parliament
B
W.B. Yeats: Purgatory (1938)
c) Argument its relevance to the broader thematic chapter/ subchapter which it is included.
Purgatory is included in the subchapter Drama. The play its relevance for this subchapter
because presents a complex variety of understanding, with no definite knowledge of around whom
does the play center or where does it happen, how should the drama be understood, but works as
a complete whole, with an indistinguishable complexity of varieties and comprehension.
Also it can be observed, that the scene is not fully defined; its the feeling that the house is not a
constant image, but changes with the turning points of the drama. It is a plastic, pliable organ,
continuously changing with the thoughts of the old man.
The old man believes that by murdering his son, he has stopped the boy to have a son of his own
who would kill him after attaining 16 years of age, thereby breaking the endless cycle of
violence. He also believes that by killing his son, he helps his mother’s soul to get released from
purgatory.