Period | Title | Type | Author | Answer | % Correct |
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WWII / Postwar (1945 & 1949) | "Animal Farm" and "1984" | Political allegorical novella (former); Dystopian political sci-fi | Eric Arthur Blair, better known as: ____ _____ | George Orwell | 91%
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WWI to WWII (1914-1939) | "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man", "Ulysses",and "Finnegans Wake" | Stream of Consciousness, realism, modernist | James Joyce | 90%
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Edwardian (1902) | "_____ of _______" | Colonial Novella | Joseph Conrad, born: Józef Korzeniowski | "Heart of Darkness" | 88%
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Interwar (1932) | "___ __ ____" | Sci-fi, dystopian novel | Aldous Huxley | "Brave New World" | 84%
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Interwar (1928) | "Orlando" and "To the Lighthouse" | Feminist, LGBT; stream of consciousness (latter only) | Virginia Woolf | 84%
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Interwar (1928/1960) | "____ _______'s _____"; banned in the UK in its uncensored form until 1960. | Modernist, romance | D.H. Lawrence | "Lady Chatterley's Lover" | 77%
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Edwardian (1904 & 1911) | "_____ ___" | Originally a play (1904), then a novel (1911) | Sir J.M. Barrie | "Peter Pan" | 77%
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Postwar (1954) | "Lord of the Flies" | Allegorical novel | Sir ____ _____ | Sir William Golding | 77%
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Edwardian to Interwar (1907, 1910, & 1924) | "The Longest Journey", "Howard's End", and "A Passage to India" | Bildungsroman; family drama; modernist (respectively) | E.M. Forster | 76%
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WWI - WWII (1915-1935) | "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", "The Hollow Men", "The Wasteland" (poems); and "Murder in the Cathedral" (play) | Modernist poetry, medieval drama | American born author: __ _____ | T.S. Eliot | 76%
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Interwar (1935) | "_____ __ ____; a tragicomedy in two acts" | Drama; Tragicomedy "theater of the absurd" | Samuel Beckett | "Waiting for Godot" | 73%
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Edwardian (1912) | "_______" | Drama; romantic comedy / social criticism | George Bernard Shaw | "Pygmalion" | 71%
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Interwar / WWII (1930 & 1945) | "Vile Bodies" and "Brideshead Revisited" | LGBT, interwar satire (former only), Catholic family drama (latter only) | Evelyn Waugh, born: Arthur Evelyn Waugh | 65%
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Victorian to Interwar (1899-1939) | "The Wanderings of Oisin", "The Wild Swans at Coole" and "The Second Coming" | Irish epic; lyric poem; modernist post-war poem (respectively) | W.B. Yeats | 63%
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Postwar (1951) | "_ __ _ ____ into ____ ____ _____" | Villanelle | Dylan Thomas | "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" | 51%
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WWI (1917) | "Dulce et Decorum est"; author was killed in action in 1918 | Vignette poem on the horrors of war, LGBT author | Wilfred Owen | 42%
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Postwar (1966) | "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" | Shakespearean parody; absurdist, existentialist tragicomedy | Tom Stoppard | 36%
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Postwar / 1960s (1953, 1957 & 1969) | "The Living Room" and "The Potting Shed" (dramas); "Travels with My Aunt" (novel) | Novelist and dramatist, Catholic themes | Graham Greene | 32%
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Edwardian to Interwar (1908 - 1923) | "The Garden Party and Other Stories" | Slice-of-life short stories, stream of consciousness, LGBT author | Katherine Mansfield | 28%
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WWI (1914) | War Sonnets, especially "__ ______" | Idealized war sonnets | Rupert Brooke | "The Soldier" | 28%
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