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Example Question #11 :Analyzing The Content Of Twentieth Century Fiction
Which fantasy author created the realm known as "Middle Earth"?
C. S. Lewis
W. H. Auden
Sinclair Lewis
J. R. R. Tolkien
H. P. Lovecraft
J. R. R. Tolkien
J.R.R. Tolkien was an Oxford University professor who began telling his children stories about a fictional time and place as bedtime stories. Eventually, Tolkien molded and reshaped these stories into the novelsThe Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings,andThe Silmarillion.Tolkien's books became classics of the fantasy genre, and have been turned into successful film franchises.
Example Question #12 :Analyzing The Content Of Twentieth Century Fiction
What is the mid-twentieth-century American novel about a young man wandering around New York City on a break from his school?
The Fixer
The Naked and the Dead
The Catcher in the Rye
Portnoy's Complaint
Rabbit, Run
The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger's 1951 novelThe Catcher in the Ryeis the story of the teenager Holden Caulfield, who feels disillusioned with his life at a boarding school and leaves for a break to go back to his native New York City. The book is told from Holden's point of view and presents an early version of teenage angst as it details Holden's wanderings. The book is a popular book still, and often appears on "Best Books" lists.
Example Question #13 :Analyzing The Content Of Twentieth Century Fiction
May Welland, Newland Archer, and Ellen Olenska, are all characters in which novel?
Middlemarch
The Age of Innocence
For Whom the Bell Tolls
East of Eden
Gone with the Wind
The Age of Innocence
Ellen Olenska, Newland Archer, and May Welland are main characters in Edith Wharton's novelAge of Innocence. The novel was awarded the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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