GRE Subject Test: Literature in English : Cultural and Historical Contexts
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Example Questions
Example Question #38 : Contexts Of Prose
During what decade was White Teeth published?
1990s
1970s
1980s
2000s
2010s
2000s
White Teeth, Zadie Smith’s first novel, was published in 2000 and won the Whitbread Book Award for a first novel, the Guardian First Book Award, and the Commonwealth Writers First Book Prize the same year.
Example Question #221 : Cultural And Historical Contexts
Which of the following is not another work by the author of White Teeth?
The Embassy of Cambodia
The Autograph Man
NW
On Beauty
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?
The Cement Garden
The Sense of an Ending
Saturday
Solar
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?
Scoop
The Loved One
The Quiet American
Decline and Fall
A Handful of Dust
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?
Sexing the Cherry
Lighthousekeeping
The Bloody Chamber
Art Objects: Essays in Ecstasy and Effrontery
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
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?
Arundhati Roy
Kazuo Ishiguro
Kiran Desai
Salman Rushdie
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?
The Buried Giant
The Inheritance of Loss
The Unconsoled
Never Let Me Go
An Artist of the Floating World
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.
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