GRE Subject Test: Literature in English : Contexts of Prose
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Example Question #402 : Cultural And Historical Contexts
What is a central subject of Dictionary of the Khazars?
Adultery
Religion
Bribery
Theft
Unrequited love
Religion
The novel is primarily concerned with the religious lives of the Khazars, a fictional people who Pavić has said represents the Serbs.
Example Question #54 : Contexts Of World Prose After 1925
Who is the author of Água Viva?
Clarice Lispector
Fernando Pessoa
Machado de Assis
Paulo Coelho
José Saramago
Clarice Lispector
Published in Portuguese in 1973, this first-person novel is one of the most famous works by Clarice Lispector (1920-1977).
Paulo Coelho wrote The Alchemist (1988). Machado de Assis wrote The Hand and the Glove (1874). Fernando Pessoa wrote Antinous (1918). José Saramago wrote Blindness (1995). All of the answer options are renowned Brazilian authors who worked primarily in Portuguese.
Example Question #641 : Gre Subject Test: Literature In English
Where was the author of Água Viva born?
Ukraine
Venezuela
South Africa
Nigeria
England
Ukraine
Lispector was the daughter of European Jews who fled the Ukraine to Brazil following World War I. Lispector worked primarily in her adopted language of Portugese. Água Viva was published in 1973.
Example Question #642 : Gre Subject Test: Literature In English
Where did the author of Água Viva spend most of her life?
Spain
Chile
Argentina
Brazil
Portugal
Brazil
Lispector lived for most of her life in Rio de Janeiro. She wrote and published primarily in Portugese. Água Viva was published in 1973.
Example Question #55 : Contexts Of World Prose After 1925
Which of the following is another work by the author of Água Viva?
By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
The Alchemist
Aleph
Eleven Minutes
The Passion According to G.H
The Passion According to G.H
The Passion According to G.H. (Portuguese: A Paixão Segundo G.H.) is another of Lispector’s most famous works. Published in 1964, it takes the form of a mystical monologue occurring during the narrator’s mental breakdown. The other titles are by Brazilian novelist Paulo Coelho. The Alchemist was published in 1988. Eleven Minutes was published in 2004. Aleph was published in 2011. By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept was published in 1994.
Example Question #56 : Contexts Of World Prose After 1925
Who is the author of Bestiary?
Jorge Luis Borges
Laura Esquivel
Julio Cortázar
Carlos Fuentes
Paulo Coelho
Julio Cortázar
The short story collection Bestiary (Spanish: Bestario) was written in 1951 by Julio Cortázar (1914-1984).
Jorge Luis Borges wrote A Universal History of Infamy (1935). Carlos Fuentes wrote Where the Air is Clear (1958). Paulo Coelho wrote Brida (1990). Laura Esquivel wrote Like Water for Chocolate (1992).
Example Question #221 : Contexts Of Prose
Which of the following is another title by the author of Bestiary?
The Library of Babel
Dreamtigers
The Book of Imaginary Beings
Hopscotch
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 #646 : Gre Subject Test: Literature In English
In what country did the author of Bestiary spend most of his life?
Colombia
Paraguay
Argentina
Chile
Mexico
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 #222 : Contexts Of Prose
Who is the author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being?
Milan Kundera
Bohumil Hrabal
Ota Pavel
Czesław Miłosz
Bruno Schulz
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 #648 : Gre Subject Test: Literature In English
What nationality is the author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being?
Dutch
Hungarian
Polish
French
Czech
Czech
Born in Brno, Milan Kundera is Czech. The Unbearable Lightness of Being was published in 1984.
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