GRE Subject Test: Literature in English : Identification of Plays

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Example Question #8 : Identification Of World Plays After 1925

The German playwright and poet Bertolt Brecht wrote which of the following important anti-war plays?

Possible Answers:

The Caretaker

The Rhinoceros

Mother Courage and Her Children

The Bird

Waiting for Godot

Correct answer:

Mother Courage and Her Children

Explanation:

Brecht’s works, among which are Mother Courage and Her Children and The Caucasian Chalk Circle, often encouraged audience participation and deep critical thinking. He is often considered a founder of Epic Theatre, although he chose to qualify or reject that classification. Mother Courage and Her Children is one of many of his plays written in response to the rise of Nazism.

Example Question #9 : Identification Of World Plays After 1925

What Peruvian writer and Nobel laureate wrote the plays La Chunga; Pretty Eyes, Ugly Pictures; and The Madman of the Balconies?

Possible Answers:

Sebastián Salazar Bondy

Julio Cortázar

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Fernando Arrabal

Mario Vargas Llosa

Correct answer:

Mario Vargas Llosa

Explanation:

This is Mario Vargas Llosa, one of the most influential Latin American writers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. His work (which includes novels and essays as well as drama) is often political and anti-nationalistic and is deeply invested in portraying power struggles between rulers and the poor or disenfranchised.

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