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Free CLEP Composition and Literature Exam Braindumps (page: 21)

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Which of the following novels traces the rise and fall of a Southern politician?

  1. All the King’s Men
  2. Innocents Abroad
  3. Invisible Man
  4. As I Lay Dying
  5. Henderson the Rain King

Answer(s): A

Explanation:

Robert Penn Warren’s All the King’s Men describes the rise and fall of a mythical Southern politician closely based on Huey Long.



John Dos Passos, Dashiell Hammett, Ernest Hemingway, and others campaigned against the growth of fascism in Europe by volunteering to help

  1. England during World War I
  2. Italy during World War I
  3. France during World War I
  4. the Red Army during the Russian Revolution
  5. the Republicans during the Spanish Civil War

Answer(s): E

Explanation:

A number of important American and European intellectuals, including those listed, volunteered to fight for Republican forces opposed to the Nazi-backed Nationalist forces.



Conflicts between characters with traditional Southern values and the aggressive, rapidly changing world of modern America forms one of the major themes in

  1. Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire
  2. Richard Wright’s Native Son
  3. Thomas Wolfe’s Look Homeward, Angel
  4. Zora Neale Hurston’s Mules and Men
  5. Katherine Anne Porter’s Pale Horse, Pale Rider

Answer(s): A

Explanation:

The conflicts that arise between the old and new South forms one of the major themes of Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire.



Which Eugene O’Neill play is an autobiographical account of his Irish-American family?

  1. Beyond the Horizon
  2. Long Day’s Journey into Night
  3. Strange Interlude
  4. Anna Christie
  5. Bound East for Cardiff

Answer(s): B

Explanation:

Long Day’s Journey into Night tells of Eugene O’Neill’s troubled family and his father’s alcoholism.






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