GRE Subject Test: Literature in English : Contexts of World Prose
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Example Question #61 : Contexts Of World Prose
Which of the following is another title by the author of Bestiary?
Hopscotch
The Library of Babel
Dreamtigers
The Book of Imaginary Beings
Ficciones
Hopscotch
Hopscotch, a 1963 novel with an untraditional structure, is by Cortázar. The rest are titles by Jorge Luis Borges. Ficciones was published in 1944. The Library of Babel was published in 1962. The Book of Imaginary Beings was published in 1957. Dreamtigers was published in 1960.
Example Question #401 : Cultural And Historical Contexts
In what country did the author of Bestiary spend most of his life?
Mexico
Colombia
Chile
Paraguay
Argentina
Argentina
Cortázar is known first and foremost as an Argentinian writer. Most of his works, Bestiary (1969) included, were written and published in Spanish.
Example Question #62 : Contexts Of World Prose
Who is the author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being?
Czesław Miłosz
Bruno Schulz
Ota Pavel
Milan Kundera
Bohumil Hrabal
Milan Kundera
Born in 1929, Milan Kundera is the author of the philosophical novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being (published in 1984).
Bohumil Hrabal wrote Too Loud a Solitude (1977). Ota Pavel wrote How I Came to know A Fish (1973). Czesław Miłosz wrote The Poem of the Pearl (1982). Bruno Schulz wrote Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass (1937).
Example Question #645 : Gre Subject Test: Literature In English
What nationality is the author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being?
Dutch
Hungarian
Czech
French
Polish
Czech
Born in Brno, Milan Kundera is Czech. The Unbearable Lightness of Being was published in 1984.
Example Question #63 : Contexts Of World Prose
What is another title by the author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being?
The House of the Dead
Poor Folk
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
The Raw Youth
White Nights
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
With the exception of The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1979), all of the titles are by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. White Nights was published in 1848. Poor Folk was published in 1846. The Raw Youth was published in 1875. The House of the Dead was published in 1862.
Example Question #64 : Contexts Of World Prose
Who is the author of I Served the King of England?
Ota Pavel
Bohumil Hrabal
Ivan Martin Jirous
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Milan Kundera
Bohumil Hrabal
I Served the King of England (1971) is a novel by Bohumil Hrabal (1914-1997).
Milan Kundera wrote The Joke (1969). Ota Pavel wrote Golden Eels (1985). Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote Two Hundred Years Together (2002).
Example Question #65 : Contexts Of World Prose
What is another title by the author of I Served the King of England?
Immortality
Life is Elsewhere
The Festival of Insignificance
Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age
The Joke
Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age
Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age (1964) is a one-sentence novel by Hrabal. The rest are titles by the Czech writer Milan Kundera. The Joke was published in 1969. Immortality was published in 1990. Life is Elsewhere was published in 1969. The Festival of Insignificance was published in 2015.
Example Question #234 : Contexts Of Prose
What nationality is the author of I Served the King of England?
Czech
French
Swiss
Prussian
Hungarian
Czech
Born in Brno, Bohumil Hrabal is Czech and is one of the Czech Republic’s best known writers.
I Served the King of England was published in 1971.
Example Question #235 : Contexts Of Prose
When was I Served the King of England published?
1970s
1940s
1980s
1950s
1960s
1970s
Bohumil Hrabal published I Served the King of England in 1971.
Example Question #66 : Contexts Of World Prose
Who is the author of The Gulag Archipelago?
Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
Bohumil Hrabal
Günter Grass
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Bruno Schulz
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
This is the novelist and social critic Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008). The Gulag Archipelago was published in 1973.
Bruno Schulz wrote The Street of Crocodiles in 1934. Bohumil Hrabal wrote Closely Watched Trains (1965). Günter Grass wrote Cat and Mouse (1961). Ludmilla Petrushevskaya wrote There once lived a girl who seduced her sister's husband, and he hanged himself : love stories (2013).
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