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Free CLEP Composition and Literature Exam Braindumps (page: 26)

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Which author wrote Grendel, a retelling of the Old English epic Beowulf from the monster’s point of view?

  1. John Gardner
  2. Bernard Malamud
  3. Anne Tyler
  4. Truman Capote
  5. Carson McCullers

Answer(s): A

Explanation:

John Gardner retells the epic Beowulf from the perspective of the monster Grendel.



Harry Angstrom is the protagonist of which of the following works?

  1. Rabbit Run
  2. Raise High the Roof-Beam, Carpenters
  3. Lonesome Dove
  4. The Housebreaker of Shady Hill
  5. A Love Story

Answer(s): A

Explanation:

Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom is the protagonist Rabbit Run and a number of John Updike novels.



Which author wrote the semi-autobiographical Pnin about an ineffectual professor?

  1. Vladimir Nabokov
  2. Jamaica Kincaid
  3. Elie Wiesel
  4. Stephen King
  5. Amy Tan

Answer(s): A

Explanation:

Vladimir Nabokov’s Pnin is a partly autobiographical account of a Russian émigré professor.



All of the following are poets known for their work after World War II EXCEPT

  1. John Berryman
  2. Anne Sexton
  3. Sylvia Plath
  4. Theodore Roethke
  5. Carl Sandburg

Answer(s): E

Explanation:

Carl Sandburg was a Realist poet of the later 19th and early 20th centuries.






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