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Example Questions
Example Question #21 : Contexts Of World Poetry After 1925
Who is the author of The Striders?
Maxine Hong Kingston
Paul Yoon
Jhumpa Lahiri
Hanya Yanagihara
A. K. Ramanujan
A. K. Ramanujan
The Striders (1966) is a collection of poetry by the writer and translator A. K. Ramanujan.
Paul Yoon wrote Once the Shore (2009), Jhumpa Lahiri wrote The Namesake (2003), Maxine Hong Kingston wrote Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book (1989), and Hanya Yanagihara wrote The People in the Trees (2013)
Example Question #373 : Gre Subject Test: Literature In English
What country is the author of The Striders from?
Afghanistan
Turkey
Indonesia
India
Pakistan
India
A. K. Ramanujan is an Indian writer. He was born in Mysuru in the state of Karnataka, India.
The Striders was published in 1966.
Example Question #22 : Contexts Of World Poetry After 1925
Which of the following authors is not from the same country as the author of The Striders?
Salman Rushdie
Marjane Satrapi
Rabindranath Tagore
Amitav Ghosh
Arundhati Roy
Marjane Satrapi
Rabindranath Tagore, Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh, and Arundhati Roy are all Indian writers. Marjane Satrapi is a French-Iranian writer and graphic novelist.
The Striders was published in 1966.
Example Question #23 : Contexts Of World Poetry After 1925
Which of the following is another work by the author of Autobiography of Red?
Last Poems
Sonnets from the Portuguese
Casa Guidi Windows
Aurora Leigh
Red Doc>
Red Doc>
Red Doc> (2013) is a 21st-century sequel to Autobiography of Red (1998). The other titles are all by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Sonnets from the Portuguese was published in 1850, Last Poems was published in 1862, Aurora Leigh was published in 1857, and Casa Guidi Windows was published in 1851.
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