GRE Subject Test: Literature in English : GRE Subject Test: Literature in English
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Example Question #222 : Contexts Of Prose
Where was the author of Água Viva born?
Venezuela
South Africa
England
Ukraine
Nigeria
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 #58 : Contexts Of World Prose
Where did the author of Água Viva spend most of her life?
Brazil
Portugal
Spain
Argentina
Chile
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 #641 : Gre Subject Test: Literature In English
Which of the following is another work by the author of Água Viva?
By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
The Alchemist
The Passion According to G.H
Eleven Minutes
Aleph
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 #404 : Cultural And Historical Contexts
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 #642 : Gre Subject Test: Literature In English
Which of the following is another title by the author of Bestiary?
The Library of Babel
Dreamtigers
Ficciones
The Book of Imaginary Beings
Hopscotch
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 #62 : Contexts Of World Prose
In what country did the author of Bestiary spend most of his life?
Paraguay
Colombia
Mexico
Argentina
Chile
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 #643 : Gre Subject Test: Literature In English
Who is the author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being?
Bohumil Hrabal
Ota Pavel
Czesław Miłosz
Bruno Schulz
Milan Kundera
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 #64 : Contexts Of World Prose
What nationality is the author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being?
Hungarian
Czech
French
Dutch
Polish
Czech
Born in Brno, Milan Kundera is Czech. The Unbearable Lightness of Being was published in 1984.
Example Question #644 : Gre Subject Test: Literature In English
What is another title by the author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being?
White Nights
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
The House of the Dead
Poor Folk
The Raw Youth
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 #645 : Gre Subject Test: Literature In English
Who is the author of I Served the King of England?
Ota Pavel
Milan Kundera
Bohumil Hrabal
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Ivan Martin Jirous
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).
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