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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. John Fenimore Cooper






2. Samuel Pepys






3. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray

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4. James Baldwin






5. William Langland - search for the right way to salvation - controversial as it explores rebellion - revolution - social and religious issues






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

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7. Edmund Spenser - 1590






8. Henry David Thoreau

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9. Sean O'Casey






10. Kate Chopin

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11. Thomas Hardy

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12. J. M. Synge






13. Jean Genet

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14. Andrew Marvell - 'The Garden'

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15. George Etherege 'The Man of Mode -' 1676






16. Maya Angelou

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17. F. Scott Fitzgerald

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18. William Congreve






19. Chinua Achebe'S retelling of Nigerian independence






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

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21. T.S. Eliot'S The Waste Land

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22. E.M. Forster






23. John Dos Passos






24. Algernon Charles Swinburne

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25. Gulliver'S Travels - everyone is 6' tall and cruel






26. Emily Bronte

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






28. Anthony Trollope






29. Samuel Johnson






30. Pen names of Bronte sisters (Charlotte - Emily and Anne)






31. Mark Twain

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32. Christopher Marlowe






33. Salman Rushdie

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34. Gertrude Stein

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35. Goethe

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36. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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37. Gerard Manley Hopkins






38. Robert Herrick

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39. Lord Byron

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40. Oscar Wilde

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41. Oscar Wilde - 'Ballad of Reading Goal' (written as Sebastian Melmoth)

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






43. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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44. John Lydgate






45. Samuel Beckett






46. Gerard Manley Hopkins

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47. William Butler Yeats - The Lake Isle of Innisfree

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48. Charles Lamb






49. Anonymous author of Cleanness and Patience - Pearl






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