GRE Subject Test: Literature in English : Contexts of Prose
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Example Question #13 : Contexts Of British Prose After 1925
Which of the following is not another work by the author of White Teeth?
Possession
On Beauty
The Autograph Man
NW
The Embassy of Cambodia
Possession
The Autograph Man (2002), On Beauty (2005), NW (2012), The Embassy of Cambodia (2013) are all by Zadie Smith. Possession (1990) is a novel by the English author A.S. Byatt.
Example Question #42 : Contexts Of British Prose
During what decade was I, Claudius published?
1900s
1930s
1940s
1920s
1910s
1930s
I, Claudius was published in 1934.
Example Question #43 : Contexts Of British Prose
Which of the following historical figures does not appear in I, Claudius?
Homer
Emperor Augustus
Nero
Caligula
King Herod
Homer
All of the above figures were contemporaries of the Emperor Claudius (10 BCE to 54 CE) except for Homer (c.800 BCE to c.750 BCE).
Example Question #41 : Contexts Of Prose
Which of the following is not another novel by the author of Atonement?
Solar
The Sense of an Ending
The Cement Garden
Enduring Love
Saturday
The Sense of an Ending
The Sense of an Ending is a 2011 novel by Julian Barnes. Enduring Love (1997), Saturday (2005), Solar (2010), and The Cement Garden (1978) are all by Ian McEwan.
Example Question #45 : Contexts Of British Prose
During what decade was Brideshead Revisited published?
1940s
1910s
1950s
1920s
1930s
1940s
Brideshead Revisited was written after the author’s parachute accident in 1943 and was published in 1945.
Example Question #41 : Contexts Of British Prose
Which of the following is not another novel by the author of Brideshead Revisited?
The Quiet American
The Loved One
Scoop
Decline and Fall
A Handful of Dust
The Quiet American
Decline and Fall (1928), A Handful of Dust (1934), Scoop (1938), and The Loved One (1948) are all by Evelyn Waugh. The Quiet American is a 1955 novel by the English author Graham Greene.
Example Question #42 : Contexts Of British Prose
Which of the following is not another work by the author of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit?
Lighthousekeeping
The Bloody Chamber
Art Objects: Essays in Ecstasy and Effrontery
Sexing the Cherry
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
The Bloody Chamber
Jeanette Winterson wrote the novels Sexing the Cherry (1989) and Lighthousekeeping (2004),the essay Art Objects: Essays in Ecstasy and Effrontery (1995), and the memoir Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (2011). The Bloody Chamber is a 1979 collection of short stories by the English author Angela Carter.
Example Question #43 : Contexts Of British Prose
Who wrote The Remains of the Day?
Kazuo Ishiguro
Arundhati Roy
Kiran Desai
Yann Martel
Salman Rushdie
Kazuo Ishiguro
The Remains of the Day (1989)is a novel by British author Kazuo Ishiguro. It concerns Lord Darlington’s butler Stevens and his relationship with a housekeeper in the days leading up to World War II.
Arundhati Roy won the 1999 Man Booker for The God of Small Things (1997), Kiran Desai won the Booker in 2006 for The Inheritance of Loss (2006), Salman Rushdie won the Booker in 1981 for Midnight's Children (1981), and Yann Martel is Canadian.
Example Question #461 : Gre Subject Test: Literature In English
Which of the following is not another novel by the author of The Remains of the Day?
The Buried Giant
An Artist of the Floating World
The Unconsoled
The Inheritance of Loss
Never Let Me Go
The Inheritance of Loss
Never Let Me Go (2005), The Buried Giant (2015), An Artist of the Floating World (1986), and The Unconsoled (1995) are all by Kazuo Ishiguro. The Inheritance of Loss (2006) is by Kiran Desai.
Example Question #44 : Contexts Of British Prose
Who wrote White Teeth?
Zadie Smith
A.S. Byatt
Kate Atkinson
Kiran Desai
Hilary Mantel
Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith wrote White Teeth (2000),a novel about two London families, race, immigration, love, and religion.
Kiran Desai is the author of Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard (1998), Hilary Mantel is the author of Bring up the Bodies (2012), A.S. Byatt is the author of Morpho Eugenia (1992), and Kate Atkinson is the author of Emotionally Weird (2000).
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