Identification of American Prose After 1925

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GRE Subject Test: Literature in English › Identification of American Prose After 1925

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This Pulitzer- and Nobel-Prize winning novelist and three-time recipient of the National Book Award wrote such novels as The Adventures of Augie March and Herzog. Who is he?

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This author’s renowned 1966 book, In Cold Blood, investigates an unsolved quadruple homicide in Kansas. Who is he?

3

Oedipa Maas, Pierce Inverarity, and Dr. Hilarius are characters from which of the following works of literature?

4

124, Paul D, Baby Suggs, and Denver are characters in which of the following literary works?

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This author’s novels include What I Lived For, Black Water, and Blonde. Who is she?

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A Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by this author concerns the rises and falls in the fortune of a Chinese family, the protagonist Wang Lung, and the aristocratic House of Hwang. Who is the author?

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Death Comes for the Archbishop and My Ántonia are by which American author?

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This Native American author wrote novels and short story collections including Reservation Blues, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. Who is he or she?

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Which novel features the characters Holden, Phoebe, Stradlater, and Mr. Antolini?

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Although best known for the essay collection Notes of a Native Son, this author also wrote an acclaimed semi-autobiographical novel with characters named Sarah, Ruth, Roy, and John. Who is he or she?

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