GRE Subject Test: Literature in English : Contexts of World Prose
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Example Question #31 : Contexts Of World Prose
Who is the author of In the Time of the Butterflies?
Junot Díaz
Sandra Cisneros
Viola Canales
Salvador Plascencia
Julia Alvarez
Julia Alvarez
In the Time of the Butterflies (1994) is a novel by the Dominican-American author Julia Alvarez.
Viola Canales wrote Orange Candy Slices and Other Secret Tales (2001). Salvador Plascencia wrote The People of Paper (2005). Sandra Cisneros wrote Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories (1991). Junot Díaz wrote Drown (1996).
Example Question #32 : Contexts Of World Prose
Which of the following is another novel by the author of In the Time of the Butterflies?
The House on Mango Street
My Wicked, Wicked Ways
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
Caramelo
Woman Hollering Creek
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents is Alvarez’s 1991 novel. The rest are all titles by novelist and short story writer Sandra Cisneros. The House on Mango Street was published in 1984. Caramelo was published in 2002. My Wicked, Wicked Ways was published in 1987. Woman Hollering Creek was published in 1991.
Example Question #33 : Contexts Of World Prose
Which of the following Latino authors is from the same country as Julia Alvarez?
Julia de Burgos
Esmeralda Santiago
Giannina Braschi
Junot Díaz
René Marqués
Junot Díaz
The Dominican writer Junot Díaz is the author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and This is How You Lose Her, among other titles. All the other authors are Puerto Rican. Esmeralda Santiago is the author of When I Was Puerto Rican (1994). René Marqués is the author of La Mirada (1975). Julia de Burgos is the author of Yo misma fui mi ruta (1986). Giannina Braschi is the author of Yo-Yo Boing! (1994).
Example Question #34 : Contexts Of World Prose
Who is the author of Yo-Yo Boing!, a 1994 novel?
Viola Canales
Yolanda Oreamuno
Giannina Braschi
Carlos Salazar Herrera
Salvador Plascencia
Giannina Braschi
Yo-Yo Boing (1994) is by the author Giannina Braschi. Carlos Salazar Herrera was a short story writer and wood-cut artist. Yolanda Oreamuno wrote La Ruta de su Evasión (1948).
Example Question #619 : Gre Subject Test: Literature In English
What country is the author of Yo-Yo Boing! from?
The Dominican Republic
Costa Rica
Venezuela
Puerto Rico
Panama
Puerto Rico
Giannina Braschi is Puerto Rican. Yo-Yo Boing! was published in 1994.
Example Question #35 : Contexts Of World Prose
Which of the following is another title by the author of Yo-Yo Boing!?
Almost a Woman
América’s Dream
United States of Banana
The Turkish Lover
When I Was Puerto Rican
United States of Banana
United States of Banana is a 2011 work by Giannina Braschi. It is an experimental hybrid work, with elements of play, essay, and prose poetry. The other titles are works by Puerto Rican author Esmeralda Santiago. When I was Puerto Rican was published in 1994. The Turkish Lover was published in 2005. Almost a Woman was published in 1999. América’s Dream was published in 1997.
Example Question #31 : Contexts Of World Prose After 1925
Where was the author of Bestiary born?
Greece
France
Ukraine
Belgium
Norway
Belgium
Although he died in France, Cortázar was born to Argentinian parents in Belgium.
Example Question #33 : Contexts Of World Prose After 1925
Where does the author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being live in exile?
Spain
France
Switzerland
Belgium
Sweden
France
Since 1975, Kundera has lived and written in France.
Example Question #32 : Contexts Of World Prose After 1925
What nationality is the author of The Gulag Archipelago?
Czech
Serbian
Russian
Hungarian
Croatian
Russian
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was a Russian writer and a well known critic of the Soviet Union, particularly its forced labor camps.
Example Question #33 : Contexts Of World Prose After 1925
When was The Gulag Archipelago published?
1990s
1950s
1970s
1980s
1960s
1970s
After a draft was confiscated by the KGB, the novel was published in 1973, but not initially in Solzhenitsyn’s native Russia.
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