British Literature 2/Irish Literature Objective Final Exam Review
(40% of your final exam grade)
Total Questions (approximate): 65
Types of questions include the following:
 Multiple Choice
 True/False
 Matching
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Correct/Incorrect
Passage Analysis
Quote/Passage Identification
What material might the test cover? (Parts 1 & 2 are most important)
1. Historical figures/events
Easter Rising
Bloody Sunday (both)
Bobby Sands & the Hunger Strike
Michael Collins
Eamon de Valera
Gerry Adams
Ian Paisley
Patrick Pearse
Belfast Agreement (also known as the Good Friday Agreement)
Guildford Four & Maguire Seven
Birmingham Six
2007 Power-sharing Government Agreement
Timeline Dates, Events & Groups (review your notes)—This can include, but is not limited to…
DUP
Catholic
Sinn Fein
IRA
Act of Union
Protestant
“The Troubles”
2. Literary Works & Films (characters, plots, quotes, time periods)
Seamus Heaney – “Act of Union,” “Punishment,” and “Road to Derry”
Siobhan Dowd—Bog Child
William Butler Yeats – Cathleen ni Houlihan and “Easter, 1916”
Jonathan Swift – “A Modest Proposal”
James Joyce – Dubliners
“The Sisters”
“An Encounter”
“Eveline”
“A Little Cloud”
Samuel Beckett – Waiting for Godot
Oscar Wilde – The Picture of Dorian Gray
Alfred, Lord Tennyson – “The Lady of Shalott”
Movies: The Boxer, Michael Collins, & In the Name of the Father
3. Author Biographies
Siobhan Dowd
Samuel Beckett
James Joyce
Seamus Heaney
4. Movements/Periods/Schools of Thought/Terms
Nationalist
Unionist
Aestheticism
Victorian Period
“Araby”
William Butler Yeats
Oscar Wilde (hint: most important)
Existentialism
Dandyism