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Who is the author of The Whitsun Weddings?
The Whitsun Weddings (1964) is Philip Larkin’s 8th book, and it contains such well-known poems as the title poem, “MCMXIV,” and “An Arundel Tomb.”
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In what decade was The Whitsun Weddings written?
The Whitsun Weddings was first published in 1964. Philip Larkin was born in 1922 and died in 1985, which rules out a few of the answer choices.
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Who of the following is not an African dramatist?
While Jean Rhys is a renowned writer, she is Dominican and not African. Moreover, she was known for writing novels (including Wide Sargasso Sea and After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie) and not plays.
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Which of the following was not written by the author of The Whitsun Weddings?
The Sea and the Mirror is a 1958 poetry collection by W.H. Auden. Jill (1946), High Windows (1974), The Less Deceived (1955), and All What Jazz (1970) are all by the prolific Philip Larkin.
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What award did the author of Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth infamously decline?
In 1997, Rich declined the National Medal of Arts in order to protest a proposition to cut government funding for the National Endowment for the Arts and other government policies.
Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth was published in 2007.
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Who is the author of Meditations in an Emergency?
Meditations in an Emergency (1957)is Frank O’Hara’s third collection. The title is allegedly an allusion to a work by the English poet John Donne.
Kenneth Koch wrote Thank You and Other Poems (1962), John Ashbery wrote Your Name Here (2000), William S. Burroughs wrote Junky (1953), and Denis Jonson wrote Jesus' Son (1992).
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The author of Meditations in an Emergency was considered an important founder of which literary group?
Along with Kenneth Koch and John Ashbery, Frank O’Hara was an important member of the New York School and contributed greatly to its surrealist, abstract expressionist, and avant-garde aesthetic.
Meditations in an Emergency was published in 1957.
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When was Meditations in an Emergency published?
This collection was first published in 1957.
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Which of the following is not a title of a poem in the collection Meditations in an Emergency?
"Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” is a 1917 poem by Wallace Stevens.
All of the other answer choices were published in Frank O'Hara's Meditations in an Emergency (1957).
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Who is the author of “The Man-Moth”?
Inspired by a newspaper misprint, “The Man-Moth” (1946) is a poem by the U.S. Poet Laureate Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979).
Elizabeth Gaskell wrote Sylvia's Lovers (1863), Sylvia Plath wrote The Bell Jar (1963), Amy Lowell wrote Ballads for Sale (1927), and Frank O’Hara wrote Oranges: 12 pastorals (1953).
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Which of the following is the title of a Pulitzer Prize-winning book of poems by the author of “The Man-Moth”?
Poems: North & South/A Cold Spring is Bishop’s 1956 Pulitzer Prize-winning collection. The rest are the titles of individual poems by Octavio Paz.
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Who is the author of The Striders?
The Striders (1966)is a collection of poetry by the writer and translator A. K. Ramanujan.
Paul Yoon wrote Once the Shore (2009), Jhumpa Lahiri wrote The Namesake (2003), Maxine Hong Kingston wrote Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book (1989), and Hanya Yanagihara wrote The People in the Trees (2013)
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What country is the author of The Striders from?
A. K. Ramanujan is an Indian writer. He was born in Mysuru in the state of Karnataka, India.
The Striders was published in 1966.
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Which of the following authors is not from the same country as the author of The Striders?
Rabindranath Tagore, Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh, and Arundhati Roy are all Indian writers. Marjane Satrapi is a French-Iranian writer and graphic novelist.
The Striders was published in 1966.
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When was The Striders published?
The Striders was first published in 1966, making it one of A. K. Ramanujan’s earlier collections. (The poet lived from 1929 to 1993.)
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Which of the following is not a dystopian novel?
The only one of these novels not set in a fictional dystopia is James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, an incredibly experimental work that vaguely follows various characters through a dreamlike, nebulous plot.
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Which of the following recent British novels did not win the Booker Prize?
Only Zadie Smith’s White Teeth has not won the Booker Prize. Anne Enright’s The Gathering won in 2007, Eleanor Catton’s The Luminaries won in 2013, Richard Flanagan’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North won in 2014, and Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss won in 2006.
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Which of the following authors was a source for I, Claudius?
The ancient Greek historian Plutarch as well as the Roman historian Suetonius provided much of the background material for I, Claudius (1934). None of the others writers would have had information about Emperor Claudius, since he was not born until after their deaths.
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During what decade was I, Claudius published?
I, Claudius was published in 1934.
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Which of the following historical figures does not appear in I, Claudius?
All of the above figures were contemporaries of the Emperor Claudius (10 BCE to 54 CE) except for Homer (c.800 BCE to c.750 BCE).
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