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C) Pinter
D) Bechett
E) Ionesco
37. The
first sentence looks complete, but the lowercase opening is an
indication that it is not. The beginning is to be found on the last page of the
book, which hence does not end with a full stop: ‘A way a lone a last a loved
a long the’
The passage above is from a description of
A) Pynchon’s
Gravity’s Rainbow
B) Joyce’s
Finnegans Wake
C) Woolf’s
To the Lighthouse
D) Morrison’s
Song of Solomon
E) Faulkner’s
The Sound and the Fury
38. Alas! what ails poor Geraldine?
Why stares she with unsettled eye?
Can she the bodiless dead espy?
And why with hollow voice cries she,
‘Off, woman, off! this hour is mine –
Though thou her guardian spirit be,
Off, woman, off! ‘tis given to me.’
Geraldine can best be described as a
A) medusa
B) lamia
C) seraph
D) chimera
E) griffin
39. The author is
A) Gray
B) Blake
C) Poe
D) Browning
E) Coleridge
40. We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made
weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
The speaker is
A) Tennyson’s Ulysses
B) Marlowe’s Faustus
C) Keats’s Hyperion
D) Byron’s Don Juan
E) Shakespeare’s Lear
41. Without wiping away the tears, taking a deep breath, or even bending his
knees – he leaped. As fleet and bright as a lodestar he wheeled toward Guitar
and it did not matter which one of them would giver up his ghost in the killing
arms of his brother. For now he knew what Shalimar knew: If you
surrendered to the air, you could
ride
it.
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The final image of the passage suggests
A) defiance
B) humility
C) defeat
D) transcendence
E) fear
42. The author is
A) Ernest Gaines
B) Sonia Sanchez
C) August Wilson
D) Toni Morrison
E) Zora Neale Hurston
43. The game the characters play in their shabby little bunker resembles an
endless, stalemated chess match. Though Hamm can neither see nor stand, he
barks out orders like a ham actor from his throne-like chair. The shuffling,
whiningly obedient Clov cannot sit. The bond that connects the men may be
that of king and knave, of
father and son, of Godot’s Pozzo and Lucky – or
given the many Shakespearean allusions, of Lear and his fool, of Prospero and
Caliban. The roles taken by Hamm and Clov parody the self-perpetuating
roles that anyone must play to ward off the universe’s meaninglessness,
silence, and ‘infinite emptiness.’
Prospero and Caliban appear in Shakespeare’s
A)
The Taming of the Shrew
B)
The Tempest