GRE Subject Test: Literature in English : Contexts of Prose
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Example Question #41 : Contexts Of American Prose After 1925
Which of the following is not another work by the author of “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been”?
them
Black Water
What I Lived For
The Wheel of Love and Other Stories
Too Much Happiness
Too Much Happiness
Too Much Happiness (2009) is a short story collection by the Canadian writer Alice Munro. All the other titles are works by Joyce Carol Oates.
Black Water was published in 1992, What I Lived For was published in 1994, The Wheel of Love and Other Stories was published in 1970, and them was published in 1969.
Example Question #42 : Contexts Of American Prose After 1925
What philosophical system did the author of The Fountainhead engender?
Existentialism
Logical Positivism
McCarthyism
Nihilism
Objectivism
Objectivism
Objectivism, which has been described variously as rational individualism and monomaniacal solipsism, claims that the pinnacle of human accomplishment is personal success and happiness. These philosophical views are developed most thoroughly in Atlas Shrugged (1957).
The Fountainhead was published in 1943.
Example Question #123 : Contexts Of Prose
When was Sophie’s Choice published?
1940s
1960s
1930s
1950s
1970s
1970s
Sophie’s Choice was originally published in 1979, although it did not win the National Book Award until 1980.
Example Question #301 : Cultural And Historical Contexts
Who is the author of The Grapes of Wrath?
Philip Roth
Richard Ford
Jack Kerouac
John Steinbeck
John Dos Passos
John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath (1939) is the fifth major novel by John Steinbeck (1902-1968).
Jack Kerouac wrote On the Road (1957), John Dos Passos wrote A Pushcart at the Curb (1922), Richard Ford wrote Independence Day (1995), and Philip Roth wrote The Prague Orgy (1985)
All of these authors are American novelists who were active in the 20th century.
Example Question #302 : Cultural And Historical Contexts
Which of the following is not another novel by the author of The Grapes of Wrath?
Of Mice and Men
The 42nd Parallel
East of Eden
Cannery Row
In Dubious Battle
The 42nd Parallel
In Dubious Battle (1936), Of Mice and Men (1937), East of Eden (1952), The Grapes of Wrath (1939), and Cannery Row (1945) are all by John Steinbeck. The 42nd Parallel is a 1930 novel by John Dos Passos.
Example Question #303 : Cultural And Historical Contexts
Which of the following is a novella by the author of The Grapes of Wrath?
The Pearl
Miracle on 34th Street
In Watermelon Sugar
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Billy Budd
The Pearl
While all of these titles are novellas, only The Pearl (1947) is by John Steinbeck, who also wrote The Grapes of Wrath (1939).
Miracle on 34th Street (1947) is by Valentine Davies, Billy Budd (1924) is by Herman Melville, Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1958) is by Truman Capote, and In Watermelon Sugar (1968) is by Richard Brautigan.
Example Question #304 : Cultural And Historical Contexts
Who is the author of Angle of Repose?
John Fowles
John Hawkes
E. Annie Proulx
James Michener
Wallace Stegner
Wallace Stegner
Angle of Repose (1971) is the tenth novel of American author Wallace Stegner (1909-1993).
James Michener wrote Tales of the South Pacific (1947) (he was also a noted patron of the arts and the founder of the Michener Foundation), E. Annie Proulx wrote Postcards (1992), John Hawkes wrote The Cannibal (1949), and John Fowles wrote The Collector (1963).
Example Question #66 : Contexts Of American Prose
When was Angle of Repose published?
1980s
1960s
1950s
1970s
1940s
1970s
Wallace Stegner's Angle of Repose was published in 1971 and won the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Example Question #305 : Cultural And Historical Contexts
Which of the following is not another work by the author of Angle of Repose?
The Spectator Bird
On a Darkling Plain
All the Little Live Things
A Confederacy of Dunces
The Big Rock Candy Mountain
A Confederacy of Dunces
The Big Rock Candy Mountain (1943), On a Darkling Plain (1940), All the Little Live Things (1967), Angle of Repose (1971) and The Spectator Bird (1967) are by Wallace Stegner. A Confederacy of Dunces is a famous 1980 novel by John Kennedy Toole.
Example Question #51 : Contexts Of American Prose After 1925
With which region is the author of Angle of Repose most closely associated?
Continental Europe
The American Southwest
The American Midwest
The American West
The South Pacific
The American West
Wallace Stegner has been known as “the dean of Western writers” and had close ties with the University of Utah during his life. Angle of Repose (1971) is one of his many works set in the American West.
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