Cultural and Historical Contexts - AP English Literature and Composition
Card 0 of 2152
Who is the author of Atonement?
Who is the author of Atonement?
Atonement (2001) is Ian McEwan’s eighth novel.
Kazuo Ishiguro is the author of A Pale View of Hills (1982), Martin Amis is the author of Dead Babies (1975), Julian Barnes is the author of Arthur and George (2005), and Pat Barker is the author of the Regeneration Trilogy (1991, 1993, 1995).
Atonement (2001) is Ian McEwan’s eighth novel.
Kazuo Ishiguro is the author of A Pale View of Hills (1982), Martin Amis is the author of Dead Babies (1975), Julian Barnes is the author of Arthur and George (2005), and Pat Barker is the author of the Regeneration Trilogy (1991, 1993, 1995).
Compare your answer with the correct one above
During what decade was Atonement published?
During what decade was Atonement published?
Ian McEwan's Atonement was published in 2001, the same year that it was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
Ian McEwan's Atonement was published in 2001, the same year that it was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
Compare your answer with the correct one above
During what war is Atonement set?
During what war is Atonement set?
Ian McEwan's Atonement is set partly in 1935 and partly in present-day England, but a significant portion of the action occurs during World War II in both France and England.
Ian McEwan's Atonement is set partly in 1935 and partly in present-day England, but a significant portion of the action occurs during World War II in both France and England.
Compare your answer with the correct one above
Which of the following is not another novel by the author of Atonement?
Which of the following is not another novel by the author of Atonement?
The Sense of an Ending is a 2011 novel by Julian Barnes. Enduring Love (1997), Saturday (2005), Solar (2010), and The Cement Garden (1978) are all by Ian McEwan.
The Sense of an Ending is a 2011 novel by Julian Barnes. Enduring Love (1997), Saturday (2005), Solar (2010), and The Cement Garden (1978) are all by Ian McEwan.
Compare your answer with the correct one above
Who is the author of Brideshead Revisited?
Who is the author of Brideshead Revisited?
Brideshead Revisited (1945) is Evelyn Waugh’s most famous novel and the work he considered his magnum opus.
Kingsley Amis wrote Lucky Jim (1954), Graham Greene wrote The Third Man (1950), Ian McEwan wrote Solar (2010), and D.H Lawrence wrote Sons and Lovers (1913).
Brideshead Revisited (1945) is Evelyn Waugh’s most famous novel and the work he considered his magnum opus.
Kingsley Amis wrote Lucky Jim (1954), Graham Greene wrote The Third Man (1950), Ian McEwan wrote Solar (2010), and D.H Lawrence wrote Sons and Lovers (1913).
Compare your answer with the correct one above
During what decade was Brideshead Revisited published?
During what decade was Brideshead Revisited published?
Brideshead Revisited was written after the author’s parachute accident in 1943 and was published in 1945.
Brideshead Revisited was written after the author’s parachute accident in 1943 and was published in 1945.
Compare your answer with the correct one above
During what decade is Brideshead Revisited mainly set?
During what decade is Brideshead Revisited mainly set?
Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited (1945) begins in the 1920s in Britain and concludes in the late 1940s, shortly after the end of World War II.
Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited (1945) begins in the 1920s in Britain and concludes in the late 1940s, shortly after the end of World War II.
Compare your answer with the correct one above
Which of the following is not another novel by the author of Brideshead Revisited?
Which of the following is not another novel by the author of Brideshead Revisited?
Decline and Fall (1928), A Handful of Dust (1934), Scoop (1938), and The Loved One (1948) are all by Evelyn Waugh. The Quiet American is a 1955 novel by the English author Graham Greene.
Decline and Fall (1928), A Handful of Dust (1934), Scoop (1938), and The Loved One (1948) are all by Evelyn Waugh. The Quiet American is a 1955 novel by the English author Graham Greene.
Compare your answer with the correct one above
Who is the author of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit?
Who is the author of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit?
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985) is Jeanette Winterson’s acclaimed first novel. It is a coming of age story about an adopted lesbian girl in a Pentecostal community in England and contains themes of sexuality and gender normativity as well as elements of autobiography.
Angela Carter wrote Love (1971), Hilary Mantel wrote Wolf Hall (2009), Zadie Smith wrote White Teeth (2000), and A.S Byatt wrote The Shadow of the Sun (1964).
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985) is Jeanette Winterson’s acclaimed first novel. It is a coming of age story about an adopted lesbian girl in a Pentecostal community in England and contains themes of sexuality and gender normativity as well as elements of autobiography.
Angela Carter wrote Love (1971), Hilary Mantel wrote Wolf Hall (2009), Zadie Smith wrote White Teeth (2000), and A.S Byatt wrote The Shadow of the Sun (1964).
Compare your answer with the correct one above
During what decade was Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit published?
During what decade was Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit published?
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit was published in 1985 and won a Whitbread Award for a First Novel the same year.
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit was published in 1985 and won a Whitbread Award for a First Novel the same year.
Compare your answer with the correct one above
Which of the following is not another work by the author of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit?
Which of the following is not another work by the author of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit?
Jeanette Winterson wrote the novels Sexing the Cherry (1989) and Lighthousekeeping (2004),the essay Art Objects: Essays in Ecstasy and Effrontery (1995), and the memoir Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (2011). The Bloody Chamber is a 1979 collection of short stories by the English author Angela Carter.
Jeanette Winterson wrote the novels Sexing the Cherry (1989) and Lighthousekeeping (2004),the essay Art Objects: Essays in Ecstasy and Effrontery (1995), and the memoir Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (2011). The Bloody Chamber is a 1979 collection of short stories by the English author Angela Carter.
Compare your answer with the correct one above
What genre of novel is Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit?
What genre of novel is Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit?
Another term for a coming-of-age novel is a bildungsroman. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985) concerns the coming-of-age of its lesbian protagonist, Jeanette.
Another term for a coming-of-age novel is a bildungsroman. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985) concerns the coming-of-age of its lesbian protagonist, Jeanette.
Compare your answer with the correct one above
There was a contention as far as a suit (in which, piety and dignity, religion and estimation, were mingled) which of the religious orders should ring to prayers first in the morning; and it was determined, that they should ring first that rose earliest. If we understand aright the dignity of this bell, that tolls for our evening prayer, we would be glad to make it ours, by rising early, in that application, that it might be ours as well as his, whose indeed it is. The bell doth toll for him, that thinks it doth; and though it intermit again, yet from that minute, that that occasion wrought upon him, he is united to God. Who casts not up his eye to the sun when it rises? But who takes off his eye from a comet, when that breaks out? who bends not his ear to any bell, which upon any occasion rings? But who can remove it from that bell, which is passing a piece of himself out of this world?
The author of this passage served as the Dean of which of the following cathedrals?
There was a contention as far as a suit (in which, piety and dignity, religion and estimation, were mingled) which of the religious orders should ring to prayers first in the morning; and it was determined, that they should ring first that rose earliest. If we understand aright the dignity of this bell, that tolls for our evening prayer, we would be glad to make it ours, by rising early, in that application, that it might be ours as well as his, whose indeed it is. The bell doth toll for him, that thinks it doth; and though it intermit again, yet from that minute, that that occasion wrought upon him, he is united to God. Who casts not up his eye to the sun when it rises? But who takes off his eye from a comet, when that breaks out? who bends not his ear to any bell, which upon any occasion rings? But who can remove it from that bell, which is passing a piece of himself out of this world?
The author of this passage served as the Dean of which of the following cathedrals?
The author of the passage is John Donne, who served as the Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral in London from 1621 until his death in 1631. This sermon was Donne's most famous piece of prose and is one that you should definitely know for the test.
Adapted from "Meditation XVII" in Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, and Severall Steps in My Sicknes by John Donne (1624)
The author of the passage is John Donne, who served as the Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral in London from 1621 until his death in 1631. This sermon was Donne's most famous piece of prose and is one that you should definitely know for the test.
Adapted from "Meditation XVII" in Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, and Severall Steps in My Sicknes by John Donne (1624)
Compare your answer with the correct one above
There was a contention as far as a suit (in which, piety and dignity, religion and estimation, were mingled) which of the religious orders should ring to prayers first in the morning; and it was determined, that they should ring first that rose earliest. If we understand aright the dignity of this bell, that tolls for our evening prayer, we would be glad to make it ours, by rising early, in that application, that it might be ours as well as his, whose indeed it is. The bell doth toll for him, that thinks it doth; and though it intermit again, yet from that minute, that that occasion wrought upon him, he is united to God. Who casts not up his eye to the sun when it rises? But who takes off his eye from a comet, when that breaks out? who bends not his ear to any bell, which upon any occasion rings? But who can remove it from that bell, which is passing a piece of himself out of this world?
The larger prose piece from which this passage was taken provided the title for a novel by which of the following authors?
There was a contention as far as a suit (in which, piety and dignity, religion and estimation, were mingled) which of the religious orders should ring to prayers first in the morning; and it was determined, that they should ring first that rose earliest. If we understand aright the dignity of this bell, that tolls for our evening prayer, we would be glad to make it ours, by rising early, in that application, that it might be ours as well as his, whose indeed it is. The bell doth toll for him, that thinks it doth; and though it intermit again, yet from that minute, that that occasion wrought upon him, he is united to God. Who casts not up his eye to the sun when it rises? But who takes off his eye from a comet, when that breaks out? who bends not his ear to any bell, which upon any occasion rings? But who can remove it from that bell, which is passing a piece of himself out of this world?
The larger prose piece from which this passage was taken provided the title for a novel by which of the following authors?
The line "Never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee" appears later in this sermon and provided the title for Ernest Hemingway's novel For Whom the Bell Tolls.
Adapted from "Meditation XVII" in Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, and Severall Steps in My Sicknes by John Donne (1624)
The line "Never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee" appears later in this sermon and provided the title for Ernest Hemingway's novel For Whom the Bell Tolls.
Adapted from "Meditation XVII" in Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, and Severall Steps in My Sicknes by John Donne (1624)
Compare your answer with the correct one above
Which of the following authors is not a Southern Gothic writer?
Which of the following authors is not a Southern Gothic writer?
Hemingway was an expatriate who wrote terse, emotionally complex novels set mainly in Europe. He is not an exemplar of the Southern Gothic style, which is known for its setting of the American South and its use of macabre and grotesque events (often to provide social commentary).
Hemingway was an expatriate who wrote terse, emotionally complex novels set mainly in Europe. He is not an exemplar of the Southern Gothic style, which is known for its setting of the American South and its use of macabre and grotesque events (often to provide social commentary).
Compare your answer with the correct one above
The author of Wise Blood and The Violent Bear It Away, this Southern writer was an invalid for much of her life.
The author of Wise Blood and The Violent Bear It Away, this Southern writer was an invalid for much of her life.
This is Flannery O’Connor, a Southern Gothic writer who suffered from lupus and is perhaps best known for short stories such as “Good Country People,” “A Good Man Is Hard to Find,” and “Parker’s Back.” Her works are deeply invested in moral and ethical questions and in probing psychological examinations of her often poor, uneducated Southern characters.
This is Flannery O’Connor, a Southern Gothic writer who suffered from lupus and is perhaps best known for short stories such as “Good Country People,” “A Good Man Is Hard to Find,” and “Parker’s Back.” Her works are deeply invested in moral and ethical questions and in probing psychological examinations of her often poor, uneducated Southern characters.
Compare your answer with the correct one above
Which of the following novels is not set during a war?
Which of the following novels is not set during a war?
Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 is set during World War II, Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow is set during the end of World War II, and Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms and For Whom the Bell Tolls are set during World War I and the Spanish Civil War, respectively. Only Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying is set during peacetime.
Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 is set during World War II, Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow is set during the end of World War II, and Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms and For Whom the Bell Tolls are set during World War I and the Spanish Civil War, respectively. Only Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying is set during peacetime.
Compare your answer with the correct one above
This author set many of his novels in the fictional Mississippi county of Yoknapatawpha. Who is he?
This author set many of his novels in the fictional Mississippi county of Yoknapatawpha. Who is he?
This is William Faulkner. Yoknapatawpha comes from a Cherokee phrase and is based on real places in Mississippi, and many of his novels—such as Absalom! Absalom!, Light in August, As I Lay Dying, and _The Sound and the Fury—_are set here.
This is William Faulkner. Yoknapatawpha comes from a Cherokee phrase and is based on real places in Mississippi, and many of his novels—such as Absalom! Absalom!, Light in August, As I Lay Dying, and _The Sound and the Fury—_are set here.
Compare your answer with the correct one above
Which American writer is famous for a novel depicting the migration and struggles of the Okies during the Dust Bowl?
Which American writer is famous for a novel depicting the migration and struggles of the Okies during the Dust Bowl?
This is John Steinbeck, and the novel in question is the 1939 Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning Grapes of Wrath. It is set during the Great Depression and centers on a family of indigent tenant farmers who move from Oklahoma to California.
This is John Steinbeck, and the novel in question is the 1939 Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning Grapes of Wrath. It is set during the Great Depression and centers on a family of indigent tenant farmers who move from Oklahoma to California.
Compare your answer with the correct one above
Which of these writers is known for his dark, brooding western novels and polysyndetic sentence style?
Which of these writers is known for his dark, brooding western novels and polysyndetic sentence style?
This is Cormac McCarthy, whose novels include All the Pretty Horses, Blood Meridian, The Road, and No Country For Old Men. His work often features apocalyptic settings, largely male casts, and dialogues of untranslated Spanish.
This is Cormac McCarthy, whose novels include All the Pretty Horses, Blood Meridian, The Road, and No Country For Old Men. His work often features apocalyptic settings, largely male casts, and dialogues of untranslated Spanish.
Compare your answer with the correct one above