GRE Subject Test: Literature in English : Contexts of World Prose
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Example Question #11 : Contexts Of World Prose
Who is the author of Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage?
Jeanette Winterson
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Alice Munro
Carol Shields
Ursula K. Le Guin
Alice Munro
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage (2001) is Alice Munro’s tenth collection of short stories.
Ursula K. LeGuin wrote The Dispossessed (1974), Carol Shields wrote The Stone Diaries (1993), Jeanette Winterson wrote Sexing the Cherry (1989), and Lucy Maud Montgomery wrote Anne of Green Gables (1908).
Example Question #12 : Contexts Of World Prose
To what genre do the stories of Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage belong?
Magic Realism
Realism
Fantasy
Science Fiction
Mystery
Realism
Munro’s fiction is characterized first and foremost by a strong realist bent, innovative chronological structures and a spare, unadorned prose style.
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage was published in 2001.
Example Question #597 : Gre Subject Test: Literature In English
During which decade was Love in the Time of Cholera published?
1960s
1980s
1990s
1970s
1950s
1980s
Love in the Time of Cholera was first published in Spanish in 1985 and in English in 1988.
Example Question #595 : Gre Subject Test: Literature In English
What country is the author of Independent People from?
Norway
Sweden
Finland
Iceland
Denmark
Iceland
Halldór Laxness is Icelandic – the only Icelandic writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Example Question #13 : Contexts Of World Prose
Which of the following is not another work by the author of Independent People?
The Fish Can Sing
Finn Family Moomintroll
World Light
Under the Glacier
Iceland’s Bell
Finn Family Moomintroll
Finn Family Moomintroll is a 1948 children’s book by Tove Jansson, the creator of the beloved Moomin creatures. The Fish Can Sing (1957), World Light (1969), Iceland’s Bell (1943), and Under the Glacier (1972) are all by Laxness.
Example Question #14 : Contexts Of World Prose
Which of the following is not another work by the author of Love in the Time of Cholera?
Of Love and Other Demons
“A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings”
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Like Water For Chocolate
Like Water For Chocolate
Like Water For Chocolate is a 1989 novel by the Mexican novelist Laura Esquivel. Of Love and Other Demons was published in 1994, One Hundred Years of Solitude was published in 1967, Chronicle of a Death Foretold was published in 1981, Love in the Time of Cholera was published in 1985, and “A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings” was published in 1955 – all by Gabriel García Márquez.
Example Question #15 : Contexts Of World Prose
To which of the following genres does Love in the Time of Cholera belong?
Dadaism
Magical Realism
Fantasy
Surrealism
Science Fiction
Magical Realism
Gabriel García Márquez is known primarily as a magical realist writer, and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985), one of his most famous novels, is no exception to this blend of everyday realism and unexplained magical events.
Example Question #16 : Contexts Of World Prose
Who is the author of Independent People?
Karl Ove Knausgård
Henrik Ibsen
Stieg Larsson
Halldór Laxness
Tove Jansson
Halldór Laxness
The poet, playwright, and fiction writer Halldór Laxness (née Halldór Guðjónsson) wrote the novel Independent People (1934), a two-volume work about the difficult lives of impoverished Icelandic farmers in the early 1900s.
Tove Jansson wrote Kometjakten (Comet in Moominland) (1946), Stieg Larsson wrote Män som hatar kvinnor (literally translated as "Men Who Hate Women," published in English under the title The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) (2005), Karl Ove Knausgård wrote Min Kamp (My Struggle) (2009-2011), and Henrik Ibsen wrote Peer Gynt (1867).
Example Question #17 : Contexts Of World Prose After 1925
During what decade was Independent People published?
1920s
1930s
1910s
1900s
1890s
1930s
Halldór Laxness published Independent People in two parts in 1934 and 1935.
Example Question #17 : Contexts Of World Prose
Who is the author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle?
David Mitchell
Ha Jin
Yu Hua
Banana Yoshimoto
Haruki Murakami
Haruki Murakami
Published in 1994, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is Haruki Murakami’s eighth novel.
Ha Jin wrote In the Pond (1998), David Mitchell wrote Cloud Atlas (2004), Banana Yoshimoto wrote Hardboiled & Hard Luck (1999), and Yu Hua wrote Chronicle of a Blood Merchant (1995).
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