GRE Subject Test: Literature in English : Cultural and Historical Contexts
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Example Question #34 : Contexts Of World Prose
Who is the author of Yo-Yo Boing!, a 1994 novel?
Viola Canales
Salvador Plascencia
Giannina Braschi
Yolanda Oreamuno
Carlos Salazar Herrera
Giannina Braschi
Yo-Yo Boing (1994) is by the author Giannina Braschi. Carlos Salazar Herrera was a short story writer and wood-cut artist. Yolanda Oreamuno wrote La Ruta de su Evasión (1948).
Example Question #35 : Contexts Of World Prose After 1925
What country is the author of Yo-Yo Boing! from?
Puerto Rico
The Dominican Republic
Panama
Costa Rica
Venezuela
Puerto Rico
Giannina Braschi is Puerto Rican. Yo-Yo Boing! was published in 1994.
Example Question #35 : Contexts Of World Prose
Which of the following is another title by the author of Yo-Yo Boing!?
Almost a Woman
When I Was Puerto Rican
América’s Dream
The Turkish Lover
United States of Banana
United States of Banana
United States of Banana is a 2011 work by Giannina Braschi. It is an experimental hybrid work, with elements of play, essay, and prose poetry. The other titles are works by Puerto Rican author Esmeralda Santiago. When I was Puerto Rican was published in 1994. The Turkish Lover was published in 2005. Almost a Woman was published in 1999. América’s Dream was published in 1997.
Example Question #37 : Contexts Of World Prose After 1925
Where was the author of Bestiary born?
Belgium
France
Greece
Norway
Ukraine
Belgium
Although he died in France, Cortázar was born to Argentinian parents in Belgium.
Example Question #38 : Contexts Of World Prose After 1925
Where does the author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being live in exile?
Switzerland
Spain
Sweden
France
Belgium
France
Since 1975, Kundera has lived and written in France.
Example Question #39 : Contexts Of World Prose After 1925
What nationality is the author of The Gulag Archipelago?
Czech
Russian
Hungarian
Croatian
Serbian
Russian
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was a Russian writer and a well known critic of the Soviet Union, particularly its forced labor camps.
Example Question #40 : Contexts Of World Prose After 1925
When was The Gulag Archipelago published?
1950s
1970s
1980s
1990s
1960s
1970s
After a draft was confiscated by the KGB, the novel was published in 1973, but not initially in Solzhenitsyn’s native Russia.
Example Question #41 : Contexts Of World Prose
What country is the author of The Street of Crocodiles from?
Russia
Spain
Poland
Austria
Hungary
Poland
Bruno Schulz is a Polish writer and artist.
Example Question #41 : Contexts Of World Prose After 1925
What is the title of another work by the author of The Street of Crocodiles?
There Once Lived a Mother Who Loved Her Children…
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, and He Hanged Himself: Love Stories
There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales
The Time: Night
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass, a 1937 novel, is by Schulz. All the rest are works by the Russian author Ludmilla Petrushevskaya.
Example Question #43 : Contexts Of World Prose
When was The Street of Crocodiles first published?
1960s
1950s
1930s
1920s
1940s
1930s
The novel was originally published in Polish in 1934, but it wasn’t translated into English until the 1960s.
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