All GRE Subject Test: Literature in English Resources
Example Questions
Example Question #87 : Contexts Of American Prose After 1925
The title of The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter comes from a poem by which Scottish poet?
W.B. Yeats
Mary Astell
Dylan Thomas
Robert Burns
Fiona Macleod
Fiona Macleod
Carson McCullers’ title is taken directly from Fiona Macleod’s 1896 poem “The Lonely Hunter.” This answer gives you a helpful clue to narrow down the answer choices: The poet must be Scottish. Dylan Thomas was Welsh, W.B. Yeats was Irish, and Mary Astell was English.
Example Question #88 : Contexts Of American Prose After 1925
Who is the author of The Moviegoer?
Truman Capote
Walker Percy
Nicholson Baker
Robert Penn Warren
John Updike
Walker Percy
The Moviegoer (1961) is a National Book Award-winning novel by the Louisiana author Walker Percy (1916-1990).
Truman Capote wrote In Cold Blood (1965), Nicholson Baker wrote The Anthologist (2009), Robert Penn Warren wrote All the King's Men (1946), and John Updike wrote Rabbit, Run (1960).
Example Question #101 : Contexts Of American Prose
Which of the following is not another novel by the author of The Moviegoer?
Lost in the Cosmos
The Thanatos Syndrome
The Neon Bible
The Last Gentleman
Love in the Ruins
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 #165 : Contexts Of Prose
In what region of the United States is The Moviegoer set?
the Midwest
the South
the Northeast
the West
Alaska
the South
Like many of Percy’s other novels, The Moviegoer (1961) is set in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Example Question #581 : Gre Subject Test: Literature In English
Who is the author of The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter?
John Updike
Eudora Welty
Ayn Rand
Carson McCullers
John Irving
Carson McCullers
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940) is the first novel by American author Carson McCullers (1917-1967).