GRE Subject Test: Literature in English : Contexts of Prose
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Example Question #221 : Cultural And Historical Contexts
Which of the following is not another work by the author of White Teeth?
On Beauty
The Autograph Man
The Embassy of Cambodia
NW
Possession
Possession
The Autograph Man (2002), On Beauty (2005), NW (2012), The Embassy of Cambodia (2013) are all by Zadie Smith. Possession (1990) is a novel by the English author A.S. Byatt.
Example Question #42 : Contexts Of British Prose
During what decade was I, Claudius published?
1900s
1930s
1940s
1920s
1910s
1930s
I, Claudius was published in 1934.
Example Question #43 : Contexts Of British Prose
Which of the following historical figures does not appear in I, Claudius?
Homer
Emperor Augustus
Nero
Caligula
King Herod
Homer
All of the above figures were contemporaries of the Emperor Claudius (10 BCE to 54 CE) except for Homer (c.800 BCE to c.750 BCE).
Example Question #222 : Cultural And Historical Contexts
Which of the following is not another novel by the author of Atonement?
Saturday
The Sense of an Ending
Solar
The Cement Garden
Enduring Love
The Sense of an Ending
The Sense of an Ending is a 2011 novel by Julian Barnes. Enduring Love (1997), Saturday (2005), Solar (2010), and The Cement Garden (1978) are all by Ian McEwan.
Example Question #45 : Contexts Of British Prose
During what decade was Brideshead Revisited published?
1940s
1910s
1950s
1920s
1930s
1940s
Brideshead Revisited was written after the author’s parachute accident in 1943 and was published in 1945.
Example Question #223 : Cultural And Historical Contexts
Which of the following is not another novel by the author of Brideshead Revisited?
The Quiet American
Decline and Fall
Scoop
A Handful of Dust
The Loved One
The Quiet American
Decline and Fall (1928), A Handful of Dust (1934), Scoop (1938), and The Loved One (1948) are all by Evelyn Waugh. The Quiet American is a 1955 novel by the English author Graham Greene.
Example Question #224 : Cultural And Historical Contexts
Which of the following is not another work by the author of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit?
Lighthousekeeping
Sexing the Cherry
The Bloody Chamber
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Art Objects: Essays in Ecstasy and Effrontery
The Bloody Chamber
Jeanette Winterson wrote the novels Sexing the Cherry (1989) and Lighthousekeeping (2004),the essay Art Objects: Essays in Ecstasy and Effrontery (1995), and the memoir Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (2011). The Bloody Chamber is a 1979 collection of short stories by the English author Angela Carter.
Example Question #225 : Cultural And Historical Contexts
Who wrote The Remains of the Day?
Kazuo Ishiguro
Kiran Desai
Salman Rushdie
Arundhati Roy
Yann Martel
Kazuo Ishiguro
The Remains of the Day (1989)is a novel by British author Kazuo Ishiguro. It concerns Lord Darlington’s butler Stevens and his relationship with a housekeeper in the days leading up to World War II.
Arundhati Roy won the 1999 Man Booker for The God of Small Things (1997), Kiran Desai won the Booker in 2006 for The Inheritance of Loss (2006), Salman Rushdie won the Booker in 1981 for Midnight's Children (1981), and Yann Martel is Canadian.
Example Question #226 : Cultural And Historical Contexts
Which of the following is not another novel by the author of The Remains of the Day?
An Artist of the Floating World
The Inheritance of Loss
Never Let Me Go
The Buried Giant
The Unconsoled
The Inheritance of Loss
Never Let Me Go (2005), The Buried Giant (2015), An Artist of the Floating World (1986), and The Unconsoled (1995) are all by Kazuo Ishiguro. The Inheritance of Loss (2006) is by Kiran Desai.
Example Question #21 : Contexts Of British Prose After 1925
Who wrote White Teeth?
A.S. Byatt
Hilary Mantel
Kate Atkinson
Kiran Desai
Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith wrote White Teeth (2000),a novel about two London families, race, immigration, love, and religion.
Kiran Desai is the author of Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard (1998), Hilary Mantel is the author of Bring up the Bodies (2012), A.S. Byatt is the author of Morpho Eugenia (1992), and Kate Atkinson is the author of Emotionally Weird (2000).
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