Contexts of British Prose
Help Questions
AP English Literature and Composition › Contexts of British Prose
Who wrote The Remains of the Day?
Kazuo Ishiguro
Arundhati Roy
Kiran Desai
Salman Rushdie
Yann Martel
Explanation
The Remains of the Day (1989)is a novel by British author Kazuo Ishiguro. It concerns Lord Darlington’s butler Stevens and his relationship with a housekeeper in the days leading up to World War II.
Arundhati Roy won the 1999 Man Booker for The God of Small Things (1997), Kiran Desai won the Booker in 2006 for The Inheritance of Loss (2006), Salman Rushdie won the Booker in 1981 for Midnight's Children (1981), and Yann Martel is Canadian.
Who wrote The Remains of the Day?
Kazuo Ishiguro
Arundhati Roy
Kiran Desai
Salman Rushdie
Yann Martel
Explanation
The Remains of the Day (1989)is a novel by British author Kazuo Ishiguro. It concerns Lord Darlington’s butler Stevens and his relationship with a housekeeper in the days leading up to World War II.
Arundhati Roy won the 1999 Man Booker for The God of Small Things (1997), Kiran Desai won the Booker in 2006 for The Inheritance of Loss (2006), Salman Rushdie won the Booker in 1981 for Midnight's Children (1981), and Yann Martel is Canadian.
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
J.M. Coetzee
Zadie Smith
Nadifa Mohamed
Explanation
This author is Salman Rushdie, whose other works include Midnight’s Children and The Moor's Last Sigh. Rushdie’s work is known for its frequent use of magical realism, Indian settings, and historical subject matter. In 1989, Iran called for Rushdie’s assassination in response to the author’s portrayal of Islam in his writing.
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
J.M. Coetzee
Zadie Smith
Nadifa Mohamed
Explanation
This author is Salman Rushdie, whose other works include Midnight’s Children and The Moor's Last Sigh. Rushdie’s work is known for its frequent use of magical realism, Indian settings, and historical subject matter. In 1989, Iran called for Rushdie’s assassination in response to the author’s portrayal of Islam in his writing.
The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex. Their estate was large, and their residence was at Norland Park, in the centre of their property, where, for many generations, they had lived in so respectable a manner as to engage the general good opinion of their surrounding acquaintance. The late owner of this estate was a single man, who lived to a very advanced age, and who for many years of his life, had a constant companion and housekeeper in his sister. But her death, which happened ten years before his own, produced a great alteration in his home; for to supply her loss, he invited and received into his house the family of his nephew Mr. Henry Dashwood, the legal inheritor of the Norland estate, and the person to whom he intended to bequeath it.
Who is the author of this novel?
Jane Austen
George Eliot
Charles Dickens
Charlotte Brontë
Horace Walpole
Explanation
Jane Austen wrote Sense and Sensibility, although it was originally published anonymously, by “A Lady.”
(Passage adapted from Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility, (1811))
The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex. Their estate was large, and their residence was at Norland Park, in the centre of their property, where, for many generations, they had lived in so respectable a manner as to engage the general good opinion of their surrounding acquaintance. The late owner of this estate was a single man, who lived to a very advanced age, and who for many years of his life, had a constant companion and housekeeper in his sister. But her death, which happened ten years before his own, produced a great alteration in his home; for to supply her loss, he invited and received into his house the family of his nephew Mr. Henry Dashwood, the legal inheritor of the Norland estate, and the person to whom he intended to bequeath it.
Who is the author of this novel?
Jane Austen
George Eliot
Charles Dickens
Charlotte Brontë
Horace Walpole
Explanation
Jane Austen wrote Sense and Sensibility, although it was originally published anonymously, by “A Lady.”
(Passage adapted from Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility, (1811))
Which of the following is not another work by the author of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit?
The Bloody Chamber
Sexing the Cherry
Art Objects: Essays in Ecstasy and Effrontery
Lighthousekeeping
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Explanation
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.
Which of the following major events occurs in I, Claudius?
the assassination of Caligula
the Trojan War
Hannibal’s crossing the Alps
the burning of the Library of Alexandria
the Punic Wars
Explanation
Robert Graves's I, Claudius (1934)takes the form of an autobiography of the Roman Emperor Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus. It was the assassination of the Emperor Caligula that led to Claudius’ ascent to power. All of the other events listed here occurred well before the reign of Claudius.
Which of the following is not another work by the author of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit?
The Bloody Chamber
Sexing the Cherry
Art Objects: Essays in Ecstasy and Effrontery
Lighthousekeeping
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Explanation
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.
What is considered the first English work of Gothic literature?
The Castle of Otranto
“The Fall of the House of Usher”
Frankenstein
Jane Eyre
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Explanation
British author Horace Walpole is widely considered the progenitor of the Gothic style, which is characterized by its mix of horror, romanticism, and macabre excess. Walpole’s 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto is usually described as the first work in this genre, although Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, Charles Dickens’ unfinished Mystery of Edwin Drood, and Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” are all more widely known works of Gothic literature.