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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. Samuel Beckett






2. Daniel Defoe






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






4. William Butler Yeats

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5. Allen Ginsberg - 'Howl'






6. Sense and Sensibility






7. John Lyle

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8. John Dryden






9. Marcel Proust






10. John Donne






11. William Makepeace Thackeray






12. Milly Theale - an American heiress stricken with a serious disease - and her impact on the people around her (Kate Croy - Merton Densher)






13. Goethe

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14. 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






15. Sir Thomas Malory; one of first books printed in England

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16. Thomas More - early 1500s - humanism






17. 'The Way of the World' by William Congreve - 1700






18. Gerard Manley Hopkins






19. Arthur Rimbaud

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20. Lawrence/Laurence Sterne






21. Robert Herrick

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22. Charles Lamb






23. James Baldwin






24. Henry James






25. Charles Dickens

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26. Eugene O'Neill

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27. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray

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28. Last lines of Walt Whitman'S 'Song of Myself'






29. Ann Radcliffe






30. Anthony Trollope






31. Dylan Thomas

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32. Upton Sinclair

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33. Jonathan Swift

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34. Richard Wright






35. Early English translator of Homer






36. Kate Chopin

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37. Malcom Lowry






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






39. Anton Chekhov






40. John Donne sermon - 'Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions'

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41. Isabel Archer confronts her destiny and finds it overwhelming. Inherits a large amount of money and is victim of Machiavellian scheme by two American expats - Gilbert Osmond and Madame Merle. Set mostly in Europe - esp. England and Italy. Pansy - Cas






42. Sean O'Casey






43. W.H. Auden

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44. Emerson - 'Self-Reliance'

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45. John Ruskin in Modern Painters






46. William Dean Howells






47. John Webster






48. Emerson - 'Concord Hymn'

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49. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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50. Horace Walpole