Contexts Of British Prose After 1925

This is an MCQ-based quiz for GRE on the Contexts Of British Prose After 1925.

This includes works like The Heart of the Matter, A Clockwork Orange, Brideshead Revisited, Wolf Hall, The Remains of the Day, and White Teeth.

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Which of the following is not a dystopian novel?

1984 Brave New World A Clockwork Orange Finnegans Wake Lord of the Flies

Which of the following recent British novels did not win the Booker Prize?

The Narrow Road to the Deep North The Luminaries White Teeth The Inheritance of Loss The Gathering

George Orwell’s 1945 novel Animal Farm is an elaborate political allegory for which of the following?

The rise of communism in Russia The rise of materialism in the United States The rise of imperialism in Western Europe The rise of colonialism in India The rise of Nazism in Germany

Which of the following is the setting for Hilary Mantel’s two-time Booker Prize-winning Wolf Hall trilogy?

The French Revolution The English Reformation The English Restoration The War of the Austrian Succession The Louisiana Purchase

Which of the following is an integral literary device in To the Lighthouse?

Dialogue Absurdism Stream-of-consciousness Allegory Dialect

Which of these British authors had a fatwa placed on him or her by the Iranian government for his or her allegedly blasphemous novel The Satanic Verses?

Salman Rushdie Kazuo Ishiguro Zadie Smith Nadifa Mohamed J.M. Coetzee

Which of the following contemporary British authors is known for her three novels about World War I and for her use of real English poet-soldiers such as Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon as characters?

Carol Ann Duffy Zadie Smith Hilary Mantel Pat Barker A. S. Byatt

Which British writer could be described as a modern-day fairy tale writer?

Kate Atkinson Angela Carter Nadifa Mohamed A. S. Byatt P. D. James

Which of the following modernist British novels does not include an important love affair?

Lady Chatterly’s Lover The Heart of the Matter 1984 A Clockwork Orange Brideshead Revisited

Which of the following contemporary British novels does not include an important love affair?

Wolf Hall None of these choices White Teeth The Satanic Verses Never Let Me Go

Quiz/Test Summary

Title: Contexts Of British Prose After 1925

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