GRE English Test

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GRE Literature In English Test questions

Directions:

Each of the questions or incomplete statements below is followed by five suggested answers or
completions. Select the one that is best in each case and then completely fill in the corresponding oval on the
answer sheet.

1. How can the prisoner reach outside except by
thrusting through the wall? To me the white whale
is that wall, shoved near to me. Sometimes I think
there’s naught beyond. But ’tis enough. He tasks
me; he heaps me; I see in him outrageous
strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it.
That inscrutable thing is chiefly what I hate; and
be the white whale agent, or be the white whale
principal, I will wreak that hate upon him.

The speaker of the lines above is

(A) Queequeg
(B) Father Mapple
(C) Ishmael
(D) Starbuck
(E) Captain Aha

2. And on the slope above the sea
The hard-handed peasants go their round
Turning the soil, blind to the body
Ambitious and viable, whose pride
Will leave no trace in the quenching tide.

The “body” (line 3) is the body of

(A) Ulysses
(B) Achilles
(C) Icarus
(D) Priam
(E) Hector

3. This work was something genuinely new in the
world: the Great West Indian Novel, a vigorous,
prodigiously detailed account of the frustrating
life and early death of a struggling journalist in
Trinidad. It was both a robust portrait of a
peculiar community— the descendants of Uttar
Pradesh Brahmins who came west to Trinidad as
indentured laborers — and a vivid metaphor for
the colonial predicament itself.

The passage above is from a discussion of

(A) Chinua Achebe’s
Things Fall Apart
(B) Leslie Marmon Silko’s
Ceremony
(C) Louise Erdrich’s
Baptism of Desire
(D) V. S. Naipaul’s
A House for Mr. Biswas
(E) Kingsley Amis’
Lucky Jim

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