Statistics for English Literature CLEP IV (20th Century - Contemporary)

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Period	Title	Type	Author	Answer	% Correct
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%
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%
Edwardian (1902)	"_____ of _______"	Colonial Novella	Joseph Conrad, born: Józef Korzeniowski	"Heart of Darkness"	88%
Interwar (1932)	"___ __ ____"	Sci-fi, dystopian novel	Aldous Huxley	"Brave New World"	84%
Interwar (1928)	"Orlando" and "To the Lighthouse"	Feminist, LGBT; stream of consciousness (latter only)		Virginia Woolf	84%
Interwar (1928/1960)	"____ _______'s _____"; banned in the UK in its uncensored form until 1960.	Modernist, romance	D.H. Lawrence	"Lady Chatterley's Lover"	77%
Edwardian (1904 & 1911)	"_____ ___"	Originally a play (1904), then a novel (1911)	Sir J.M. Barrie	"Peter Pan"	77%
Postwar (1954)	"Lord of the Flies"	Allegorical novel	Sir ____ _____	Sir William Golding	77%
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%
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%
Interwar (1935)	"_____ __ ____; a tragicomedy in two acts"	Drama; Tragicomedy "theater of the absurd"	Samuel Beckett	"Waiting for Godot"	73%
Edwardian (1912)	"_______"	Drama; romantic comedy / social criticism	George Bernard Shaw	"Pygmalion"	71%
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%
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%
Postwar (1951)	"_ __ _ ____ into ____ ____ _____"	Villanelle	Dylan Thomas	"Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night"	51%
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%
Postwar (1966)	"Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead"	Shakespearean parody; absurdist, existentialist tragicomedy		Tom Stoppard	36%
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%
Edwardian to Interwar (1908 - 1923)	"The Garden Party and Other Stories"	Slice-of-life short stories, stream of consciousness, LGBT author		Katherine Mansfield	28%
WWI (1914)	War Sonnets, especially "__ ______"	Idealized war sonnets	Rupert Brooke	"The Soldier"	28%