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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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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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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. The Raven - Edgar Allan Poe






2. John Henry - Cardinal Newman






3. Gulliver'S Travels - intelligent - clean-living horses






4. Eric Arthur Blair






5. William Blake






6. Arthur Rimbaud

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7. Charles Lamb






8. Thoreau - 'Walden'

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9. William Carlos Williams

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10. John Ruskin in Modern Painters






11. Sense and Sensibility






12. Charlotte Bronte






13. Emerson - 'Concord Hymn'

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

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15. Dedication of Shakespeare'S sonnets






16. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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17. Thomas Macaulay

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18. Joseph Conrad

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19. Daniel Defoe






20. Upton Sinclair

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21. William Wordsworth

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22. Oscar Wilde

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23. Robert Herrick

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24. W.H. Auden

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25. Malcom Lowry






26. George Meredith






27. Thomas More - early 1500s - humanism






28. Richard Wright






29. Northanger Abbey






30. Christopher Marlowe






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

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32. Christopher Marlowe






33. Alan Ginsberg

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






35. 'The Country Wife' by William Wycherley - 1675






36. Salman Rushdie

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37. William Cowper






38. Flannery O'Connor






39. 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






40. Vladimir Nabokov






41. First Englishwoman to publish a substantial volume of original poems (1611)






42. Thomas Hardy

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






44. Anonymous author of Cleanness and Patience - Pearl






45. Geoffrey Chaucer






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






47. John Fenimore Cooper






48. Ovid'S Metamorphoses - basis for Romeo and Juliet - play in Midsummer Night'S Dream






49. Thomas Carlyle






50. John Gower - 1390 - treatment of a suffering lover