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Which of the following writers did not come from Ireland ?

Correct answer: D. none of the above

  • A. W. B. Yeats
  • B. James Joyce
  • C. Seamus Heaney
  • D. none of the above

Explanation

Yeats, Joyce, and Heaney are all conventionally classified as Irish writers, though Heaney was born in Northern Ireland and Yeats was born in Dublin before Irish independence. Since none of the three is the outsider, “none of the above” is correct.

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