GRE Subject Test: Literature in English : Contexts of Prose
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Example Question #411 : Cultural And Historical Contexts
What is another title by the author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being?
The House of the Dead
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Poor Folk
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 #412 : Cultural And Historical Contexts
Who is the author of I Served the King of England?
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Milan Kundera
Ivan Martin Jirous
Ota Pavel
Bohumil Hrabal
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 #413 : Cultural And Historical Contexts
What is another title by the author of I Served the King of England?
The Festival of Insignificance
Life is Elsewhere
Immortality
The Joke
Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age
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 #652 : Gre Subject Test: Literature In English
What nationality is the author of I Served the King of England?
Swiss
Hungarian
French
Prussian
Czech
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 #653 : Gre Subject Test: Literature In English
When was I Served the King of England published?
1960s
1950s
1970s
1980s
1940s
1970s
Bohumil Hrabal published I Served the King of England in 1971.
Example Question #414 : Cultural And Historical Contexts
Who is the author of The Gulag Archipelago?
Günter Grass
Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
Bohumil Hrabal
Bruno Schulz
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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).
Example Question #415 : Cultural And Historical Contexts
Which title is also by the author of The Gulag Archipelago?
Too Loud a Solitude
Harlequin’s Millions
Little Town Where Time Stood Still
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
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 #416 : Cultural And Historical Contexts
Who is the author of The Street of Crocodiles?
Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
Fernando Pessoa
Milorad Pavić
Bruno Schulz
Günter Grass
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).
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