GRE Subject Test: Literature in English : GRE Subject Test: Literature in English
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Example Question #461 : Gre Subject Test: Literature In English
Which of the following historical figures does not appear in I, Claudius?
Emperor Augustus
King Herod
Homer
Nero
Caligula
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 #11 : Contexts Of British Prose After 1925
Which of the following is not another novel by the author of Atonement?
The Sense of an Ending
Saturday
Enduring Love
The Cement Garden
Solar
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 #463 : Gre Subject Test: Literature In English
During what decade was Brideshead Revisited published?
1930s
1910s
1920s
1950s
1940s
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 Loved One
A Handful of Dust
Decline and Fall
Scoop
The Quiet American
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?
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Art Objects: Essays in Ecstasy and Effrontery
The Bloody Chamber
Lighthousekeeping
Sexing the Cherry
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?
Kiran Desai
Kazuo Ishiguro
Arundhati Roy
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 #44 : Contexts Of British Prose
Which of the following is not another novel by the author of The Remains of the Day?
Never Let Me Go
The Inheritance of Loss
The Buried Giant
The Unconsoled
An Artist of the Floating World
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 #45 : Contexts Of British Prose
Who wrote White Teeth?
Kiran Desai
Kate Atkinson
Zadie Smith
A.S. Byatt
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).
Example Question #51 : Contexts Of Prose
Who wrote I, Claudius?
Robert Graves
Ian McEwan
Graham Greene
Kingsley Amis
Thomas Hardy
Robert Graves
I, Claudius (1934) is a novel by the Latin/Greek translator and historical fiction author Robert Graves.
Kingsley Amis is the author of Lucky Jim (1954) (he was also Martin Amis's father), Ian McEwan is the author of First Love, Last Rites (1975), Thomas Hardy is the author of Jude the Obscure (1895), and Graham Greene is the author of The Third Man (1950).
Example Question #52 : Contexts Of Prose
Which of the following major events occurs in I, Claudius?
the assassination of Caligula
the Trojan War
the Punic Wars
Hannibal’s crossing the Alps
the burning of the Library of Alexandria
the assassination of Caligula
Robert Graves's I, Claudius (1934)takes the form of an autobiography of the Roman Emperor Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus. It was the assassination of the Emperor Caligula that led to Claudius’ ascent to power. All of the other events listed here occurred well before the reign of Claudius.
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