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Example Question #91 : Contexts Of American Prose After 1925
Which of the following is not another novel by the author of The Moviegoer?
The Last Gentleman
Love in the Ruins
The Neon Bible
The Thanatos Syndrome
Lost in the Cosmos
The Neon Bible
Love in the Ruins (1971), The Thanatos Syndrome (1987), The Last Gentleman (1966), and Lost in the Cosmos (1983) are all novels by Walker Percy. The Neon Bible (1989) is the little-known first novel of John Kennedy Toole.
Example Question #104 : Contexts Of American Prose
In what region of the United States is The Moviegoer set?
the West
Alaska
the Northeast
the Midwest
the South
the South
Like many of Percy’s other novels, The Moviegoer (1961) is set in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Example Question #105 : Contexts Of American Prose
Who is the author of The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter?
Carson McCullers
John Irving
Eudora Welty
John Updike
Ayn Rand
Carson McCullers
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940) is the first novel by American author Carson McCullers (1917-1967).
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