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Example Questions
Example Question #71 : Contexts Of World Prose After 1925
Which title is also by the author of The Gulag Archipelago?
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Little Town Where Time Stood Still
Harlequin’s Millions
Too Loud a Solitude
The Death of Mr. Baltisberger
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962) is also by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. The other titles are all by Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal. Too Loud a Solitude was published in 1976. Harlequin’s Millions was published in 2014. The Death of Mr. Baltisberger was published in 1975. Little Town Where Time Stood Still was published in 1989.
Example Question #72 : Contexts Of World Prose After 1925
Who is the author of The Street of Crocodiles?
Fernando Pessoa
Milorad Pavić
Günter Grass
Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
Bruno Schulz
Bruno Schulz
This is the title of a short story as well as the collection in which it is found (alternately titled Cinnamon Shops). It is by the Jewish author Bruno Schulz (1892-1942). The Street of Crocodiles was published in 1934.
Günter Grass wrote The Flounder (1977). Ludmilla Petrushevskaya wrote There once lived a girl who seduced her sister's husband, and he hanged himself : love stories (2013). Milorad Pavić wrote Landscape Painted with Tea (1988). Fernando Pessoa wrote The Book of Disquiet (1982).