Test your basic knowledge |

GRE Literature: Subject Test Authors And Works

Instructions:

Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

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. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

3. Salman Rushdie

4. John Fenimore Cooper
Castle of Otranto
The pathetic fallacy
considered the national poet of Scotland - wrote Auld Lang Syne - 'To a Mouse'
Leatherstocking Tales (Natty Bumppo) - The Last of the Mohicans

5. Milly Theale - an American heiress stricken with a serious disease - and her impact on the people around her (Kate Croy - Merton Densher)
Dracula
The Wings of the Dove - Henry James
'Sailing to Byzantium -' 'Leda and the Swan -' The Countess Cathleen - 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree -' 'The Second Coming'
Sonnets to Orpheus - Dunio Elegies - Letters to a Young Poet -The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge - 'The Panther'

6. Jean Genet

7. Charlotte Perkins Gilman

8. James Joyce

9. T.E. Lawrence
U.S.A. Trilogy (The 42nd Parallel - Nineteen Nineteen - The Big Money)
Lawrence of Arabia - Seven Pillars of Wisdom
The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy - A Sentimental Journey through France and England
'A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:/Its loveliness increases; it will never/Pass into nothingness; but still will keep/A bower quiet for us - and a sleep/Full of sweet dreams - and health - and quiet breathing.'

10. Samuel Butler
The Wings of the Dove - Henry James
Hudibras
And now the Sun had stretch'd out all the hills - And now was dropt into the Western bay; At last he rose - and twitch'd his Mantle blew: To morrow to fresh Woods - and Pastures new
The Sun Rising

11. Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth
Lyrical Ballads
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock -' The Waste Land - 'Murder in the Cathedral -' 'The Hollow Men' - Ash Wednesday - Four Quartets - The Cocktail Party - 'Old Possum'S Book of Practical Cats'
The Lying Days - The Conservationist - Burger'S Daughter
Le Morte D'Arthur

12. Edith Wharton
U.S.A. Trilogy (The 42nd Parallel - Nineteen Nineteen - The Big Money)
To the Lighthouse - Mrs. Dalloway - The Waves - Jacob'S Room - A Room of One'S Own - Modern Fiction - Between the Acts - Orlando
Don Juan - Childe Harold'S Pilgramage - 'She Walks in Beauty -' 'They say that Hope is happiness'
The House of Mirth - The Age of Innocence - Ethan Frome - A Backward Glance

13. William Makepeace Thackeray
'A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:/Its loveliness increases; it will never/Pass into nothingness; but still will keep/A bower quiet for us - and a sleep/Full of sweet dreams - and health - and quiet breathing.'
Aspects of the Novel - A Passage to India - A Room with a View
The Book of Snobs - Catherine - Vanity Fair
'My Last Duchess -' 'A Gramarian'S Funeral -' 'Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came -' Men and Women - Dramatis Personae - 'Caliban upon Sebetos -' The Ring and the Book - 'Love Among the Ruins'

14. Henry Fielding
Every Man in His Humour (1598) - The Mask of Blackness (1605) - Volpone (1606) - Epicoene; or - The Silent Woman (1609) - The Alchemist (1610) - and Bartholomew Fair (1614) - 'Song to Celia'
Tom Jones - Joseph Andrews - Shamela - Amelia o The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great
George Orwell real name
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - 'On the Pulse of Morning -' 'Still I Rise'

15. J. M. Synge
"Death is a dialogue between the spirit and dust -" "Because I could not stop for death -" " There is another sky -" "I'm Nobody! Who are you? -" "I Started Early - took my dog - -" Nobody knows
The Tuning of Elinour Rumming - Elegy on the Death of the Earl of Northumberland - Speculum Principis - The Bowge of Court - Phyllyp Sparrow - A Lawde and Prayse Made for our Souereigne Lord of the Kyng - Magnyfycence - Speak - Parrot - Colyn Cloute
The Playboy of the Western World
'The weariness - the fever - the fret'

16. E.e. cummings

17. Henry James
The Way of the World - Love for Love
The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
Arcadia - Defense of Poesy - Astrophil and Stella - An Apology for Poetry
The Aspern Papers - The Golden Bowl - Daisy Miller - the Turn of the Screw - The Portrait of a Lady - The Wings of the Dove - The Ambassadors - The American

18. William Carlos Williams

19. John Donne
Dido Queen of Carthage - Jew of Malta - Doctor Faustus - Edward II
Not I - Endgame - Waiting for Godot - Murphy - Watt - Malloy - Malone Dies - The Unnameable
Culture and Anarchy - 'The Scholar Gypsy -' Essays in Criticism - 'Dover Beach -' 'The Function of Criticism at the Present Time -' Friendship'S Garland - 'The Study of Poetry -' 'Literature and Science'
The Sun Rising

20. Sean O'Casey
Three Sisters - Uncle Vanya - The Cherry Orchard
Arabella Fermor/Belinda - Lord Petre - Slyphs
The Plough and the Stars
Martinus Scriblerus Club

21. William Blake
The American - Henry James
Poetic Sketches - Songs of Innocence - Songs of Experience - Jerusalem - The French Revolution: A Prophecy - America: A Prophecy - The Marriage of Heaven and Hell - Visions of the Daughters of Albion - The Four Zoas
U.S.A. Trilogy (The 42nd Parallel - Nineteen Nineteen - The Big Money)
''Tis better to have loved and lost/Than never to have loved at all'

22. Chinua Achebe'S retelling of Nigerian independence
The Wings of the Dove - Henry James
Pateson - 'The Red Wheelbarrow'
Things Fall Apart
'And I shall have some peace there - for peace comes dropping slow'

23. Daniel Defoe
'no man is an island - entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent - a part of the main'
Rubinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders - The Shortest Way with the Dissenters; Or - Proposals for the Establishment of the Church
Sir Peter Teazle - Maria - Lady Sneerwell - Sir Benjamin Backbite - Charles Surface
George Orwell real name

24. Edmund Spenser
The Shepheardes Calendar - Complaints - Colin Clouts Come Home Againe - Amoretti - Epithalamion - Prothalamion
The Idea of a University - Apologia Pro Vita Sua - Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine - The Grammar of Assent
Becky Sharp - Amelia Sedley - Miss Pinkerton'S Academy for Young Ladies - Rawdon Crawley - Sir Pitt Crawley - George Osborne - William Dobbin - Joe Sedley
The Blithedale Romance - The Scarlet Letter - The House of Seven Gables - The Marble Faun - 'Chiefly about War Matters -' 'Young Goodman Brown'

25. John Dos Passos
'The Balcony'
The Stranger/The Foreigner/The Outsider - A Happy Death - 'The Rebel'
U.S.A. Trilogy (The 42nd Parallel - Nineteen Nineteen - The Big Money)
'The Yellow Wallpaper -' Herland

26. Charlotte Bronte
The Task - Olney Hyms
Shirley - The Villette - The Professor - Jane Eyre
The Playboy of the Western World
'Silence - cunning - and exile'

27. Ovid'S Metamorphoses - basis for Romeo and Juliet - play in Midsummer Night'S Dream
Three Lives - 'Tender Buttons -' The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
1984 - Animal Farm - Homage to Catalonia
'Do not ask for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee'
Pyramus and Thisbe

28. Thomas Macaulay

29. John Bunyan - 1684

30. Gertrude Stein

31. George Bernard Shaw

32. Nathaniel Hawthorne

33. Sir Walter Raleigh

34. Henry David Thoreau

35. Vladimir Nabokov
Lilliput
Amelia Lanyer
'Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night -' 'Fern Hill -' Under Milk Wood - Portrait of an Artist as a Young Dog
Lolita - Pale Fire - Ada or Ardor - Speak - Memory

36. William Blake
The Tyger
Queen Mab - Prometheus Unbound - The Cenci - The Masqu of Anarchy - Alastor - Adonais - The Revolt of Islam - Mont Blanc - A Defense of Poetry
'My Last Duchess -' 'A Gramarian'S Funeral -' 'Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came -' Men and Women - Dramatis Personae - 'Caliban upon Sebetos -' The Ring and the Book - 'Love Among the Ruins'
The Aspern Papers - The Golden Bowl - Daisy Miller - the Turn of the Screw - The Portrait of a Lady - The Wings of the Dove - The Ambassadors - The American

37. Washington Irving

38. Charles Dickens

39. Richard Wright
'Youth -' Lord Jim - Heart of Darkness - Nostromo - The Shadow-Line - Typhoon - The Secret Agent - Under Western Eyes - Victory - An Outcast of the Island
Native Son - Black Boy - The Outsider
Endymion - The Fall of Hyperion - Lamia - 'Ode to a Nightingale -' The Eve of St. Agnes - La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad - 'On First Looking Into Chapman'S Homer -' 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'
Biathanatos (defense of suicide) - Pseudo-Martyr - Ignatius His Conclave - The First Anniversary (1611) - The Second Anniversary (1612) - Poems (1633) - 'Hymn to God My God - in My Sickness -' 'Death'S Duel' (own funeral sermon) - Songs and Sonnets (

40. Maya Angelou

41. Thomas More - early 1500s - humanism
The Awakening - 'The Storm -' 'The Story of an Hour -' usually wrote about Louisana
Utopia
Three Lives - 'Tender Buttons -' The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Long Day'S Journey Into Night (1941)

42. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Sir Peter Teazle - Maria - Lady Sneerwell - Sir Benjamin Backbite - Charles Surface
The Shepheardes Calendar - Complaints - Colin Clouts Come Home Againe - Amoretti - Epithalamion - Prothalamion
Nature - 'The American Scholar -' The Dial - 'Self-Reliance -' Experience -' 'Compensation -' 'The Over-Soul -' 'The Poet -' 'Politics.' 'The Concord Hymn -' 'The Rhodora'
Queen Mab - Prometheus Unbound - The Cenci - The Masqu of Anarchy - Alastor - Adonais - The Revolt of Islam - Mont Blanc - A Defense of Poetry

43. Lord Byron

44. Elizabeth Gaskell
'All human things are subject to decay/And - when fate summons - monarchs must obey.'
'Incident'
The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
Mary Barton - Ruth - Cranford - Wives and Daughters - North and South - The Life of Charlotte Bronte

45. Ann Radcliffe
The Mysteries of Udolpho
Nature - 'The American Scholar -' The Dial - 'Self-Reliance -' Experience -' 'Compensation -' 'The Over-Soul -' 'The Poet -' 'Politics.' 'The Concord Hymn -' 'The Rhodora'
Under the Volcano
Confessio Amantis

46. Matthew Arnold'S Culture and Anarchy (sweetness and light originally coined by Jonathan Swift'S Battle of the Books)

47. Anthony Trollope
Ulysses - Finnegans Wake - The Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man - The Dubliners ('The Dead -' 'Araby')
Culture and Anarchy - 'The Scholar Gypsy -' Essays in Criticism - 'Dover Beach -' 'The Function of Criticism at the Present Time -' Friendship'S Garland - 'The Study of Poetry -' 'Literature and Science'
The Way We Live Now - Palliser novels - Chronicles of Barsetshire
Yahoos

48. William Dean Howells
George Orwell real name
'Incident'
The Life of Samuel Johnson
The Rise of Silas Lapham

49. Keat'S 'Ode to a Nightingale'

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