GRE Subject Test: Literature in English : Contexts of World Prose
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Example Question #202 : Contexts Of Prose
What country is the author of The Street of Crocodiles from?
Russia
Hungary
Austria
Poland
Spain
Poland
Bruno Schulz is a Polish writer and artist.
Example Question #41 : Contexts Of World Prose After 1925
What is the title of another work by the author of The Street of Crocodiles?
The Time: Night
There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales
There Once Lived a Mother Who Loved Her Children…
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, and He Hanged Himself: Love Stories
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass, a 1937 novel, is by Schulz. All the rest are works by the Russian author Ludmilla Petrushevskaya.
Example Question #42 : Contexts Of World Prose After 1925
When was The Street of Crocodiles first published?
1930s
1940s
1960s
1950s
1920s
1930s
The novel was originally published in Polish in 1934, but it wasn’t translated into English until the 1960s.
Example Question #391 : Cultural And Historical Contexts
The Tin Drum is part of which trilogy?
Danzig
Night
Border
Regeneration
Gormenghast
Danzig
The Tin Drum is the first novel in Grass’s Danzig Trilogy. It is followed by Cat and Mouse (1961) and Dog Years (1963).
Example Question #392 : Cultural And Historical Contexts
When was Dictionary of the Khazars published?
1970s
1950s
1960s
1990s
1980s
1980s
The novel was originally punished in 1984.
Example Question #42 : Contexts Of World Prose After 1925
Who is the author of The Tin Drum?
Hermann Hesse
Christa Wolf
Günter Grass
Herta Müller
Cornelia Funke
Günter Grass
The Tin Drum (German: Die Blechtrommel) (1959) is a novel by the novelist, poet, and artist Günter Grass (1927-2015).
Hermann Hesse wrote Siddhartha (1922). Herta Müller wrote Nadirs (1982). Christa Wolf wrote Parting from Phantoms (1995). Cornelia Funke wrote The Thief Lord (2000). All of these answer choices are noted German fiction writers of the 20th century.
Example Question #41 : Contexts Of World Prose
The Tin Drum is a seminal example of which genre?
Ethnography
Historical Fiction
Comedy of Manners
Magical Realism
Horror
Magical Realism
With its elements of fairytale and magic, The Tin Drum is well known as an early example of magical realism.
Günter Grass published The Tin Drum in 1959.
Example Question #395 : Cultural And Historical Contexts
What nationality is the author of The Tin Drum?
French
German
Greek
Austrian
Algerian
German
Although born in what is now Gdańsk, Poland, Günter Grass wrote in German and lived in Germany for most of his life.
Günter Grass published The Tin Drum in 1959.
Example Question #396 : Cultural And Historical Contexts
When was The Tin Drum published?
1940s
1910s
1930s
1950s
1920s
1950s
Günter Grass published The Tin Drum in 1959.
Example Question #43 : Contexts Of World Prose After 1925
Which of the following is not another work by the author of The Tin Drum?
The Flounder
The Meeting at Telgte
My Century
Dog Years
The Glass Bead Game
The Glass Bead Game
Dog Years (1963), The Flounder (1977), My Century (1999), and The Meeting at Telgte (1979) are all by Günter Grass. The Glass Bead Game (1943) is by the German author Hermann Hesse.
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