GRE Subject Test: Literature in English : Identification of Prose

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Example Question #22 : Identification Of World Prose

Which of the following is a memoir by Chinese-American author Maxine Hong Kingston? 

Possible Answers:

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

The Joy Luck Club

The Woman Warrior

Red Sorghum

To Live

Correct answer:

The Woman Warrior

Explanation:

The correct answer is The Woman Warrior (1976), a memoir that mixes autobiographical passages with Chinese folktales in order to investigate issues of immigration, gender, culture, and ethnicity.

Anne Fadiman's The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down (1997), Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club (1989), Mo Yan's Red Sorghum (1986), Yu Hua's To Live (1993) were used as alternative answer choices

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