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GRE Literature: Subject Test Authors And Works

Subjects : gre, literature
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. John Ruskin in Modern Painters






2. William Butler Yeats

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3. Imaginary philosopher in Thomas Carlyle'S Sartur Resartus






4. Aeschylus. Agamemnon - Choephoroe - The Eumenides. About the cursed house of Atreus






5. George Orwell






6. Henry James






7. Walt Whitman - 'Song of Myself'

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8. John Lyle

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9. William Carlos Williams

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10. Ovid'S Metamorphoses - basis for Manciple'S tale in Canterbury Tales






11. Lawrence/Laurence Sterne






12. John Webster






13. D.H. Lawrence

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14. Mark Twain

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15. Amiri Baraka/Leroi Jones






16. Alexander Pope'S The Rape of the Lock - 1717






17. William Blake






18. Sylvia Plath

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19. Geoffrey Chaucer






20. Henry Fielding






21. Emily Bronte

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22. Gulliver'S Travels - flying island where practical projects neglected and impractical projects pursued






23. Early English translator of Homer






24. Christopher Marlowe






25. Club formed by Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift - dedicated to the ridicule of folly/satire






26. John Henry - Cardinal Newman






27. In Memoriam A.H.H. by Alfred - Lord Tennyson

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28. Nathaniel Hawthorne

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29. E.M. Forster






30. Opening lines of Dryden'S Mae Flecknoe

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31. Ezra Pound

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32. William Cowper






33. Samuel Langhorne Clemens

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34. Matthew Arnold

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35. Sense and Sensibility






36. Richard Wright






37. Gulliver'S Travels - Houyhnhnms' slaves - look like humans - idiots and violent - only governed by passionate and not reason






38. Maya Angelou

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39. The legendary hero of an anonymous Old English epic poem composed in the early 8th century






40. Percy Bysshe Shelley






41. Christopher Newman - good-hearted but gauche American businessman on his first tour of Europe - looking for different world than the harsh world of 19th century American business. Mostly concerns his courting of a young widow from aristocratic Parisi






42. Daniel Defoe






43. James Baldwin






44. John Skelton






45. Mansfield Park






46. Thomas Macaulay

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47. Malcom Lowry






48. Robert Herrick

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49. John Berryman






50. Countee Cullen

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