Mock 3 – American Literature: Fiction & Drama (Part 2)

Hemingway's Across the River and into the Trees (1950); Faulkner's Light in August (1932); Melville's Typee (1846); Twain's The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894).

Melville's first book (1846), drawn from his 1842 stay in the Taipi valley of Nuku Hiva after deserting a whaler. Omoo (1847) followed.

They Too Arise (1937, a reworking of No Villain) and Some Kind of Love Story (1982, part of Two-Way Mirror) are Miller's. The Real Thing is Stoppard's, Tiny Alice Albee's, and The Crying of Lot 49 is a Pynchon novel.

Ellison's National Book Award novel follows the nameless narrator from a Southern college to Harlem and the 'Brotherhood', ending underground in a room lit by 1,369 bulbs.

Jarry's Ubu Roi (1896), which began as a schoolboy lampoon of a teacher, burlesques Macbeth's regicide along with Hamlet's ghost and Lear's division. Its opening 'Merdre!' caused a riot, and the Absurdists later hailed it as a forerunner.

Shirley Jackson ('The Lottery') was American and Henry James was American-born and later British. Roth (American Pastoral), Bond (The Room on the Roof) and the Yankunytjatjara poet Ali Cobby Eckermann are correctly placed.

Tony Kushner's 'Gay Fantasia on National Themes' (Millennium Approaches, 1991; Perestroika, 1992), set in Reagan-era America during the AIDS crisis; Pulitzer Prize 1993.

The Zoo Story (1959) and A Delicate Balance (1966, Pulitzer) are Albee's. The Price (1968) is Miller's and Operation Sidewinder (1970) Shepard's; Frances is a 1982 film.

Eco's doctoral thesis (Turin, 1954; book 1956; English translation 1988).

The Grapes of Wrath (1939), Cannery Row (1945) and East of Eden (1952) are Steinbeck's. The Naked and the Dead is Mailer's and To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee's.

Love in the Time of Cholera (1985) is a novel. The key treats 'Caribbean' as inexact for the Colombian writer, though he identified strongly with the Caribbean coast.

Okri (1991 Booker); Emecheta (1976); Adichie (2006, the Biafran war); Gordimer's first novel (1953).

Wright's American Hunger (1977), the suppressed second part of Black Boy; Morrison's A Mercy (2008); Chase-Riboud's Sally Hemings (1979); Butler's time-travel slave narrative Kindred (1979).

O'Neill's The Emperor Jones (1920) and The Hairy Ape (1922), Elmer Rice's The Adding Machine (1923) and Lajos Egri's Rapid Transit (1927) are American expressionism. Miller's All My Sons and The Crucible are realist.

Wright and Walker (Oodgeroo Noonuccal) are Australian. The American Komunyakaa lived in Australia in the 1980s while married to the novelist Mandy Sayer. Kinsella is Irish.

Ngũgĩ's Petals of Blood (1977); Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood (1979); Achebe's Things Fall Apart (1958); Gordimer's July's People (1981).

Guyanese-American, author of Coolie Woman (2013).

Hemingway's Cuban fisherman (1952).

Santiago's line in Hemingway's novella (1952; Pulitzer 1953) sums up the code hero's endurance.

Lady Oracle (1976) → The Handmaid's Tale (1985) → Alias Grace (1996) → The Blind Assassin (2000, Booker) → The Testaments (2019, joint Booker).

Per the key. Latin American writing is marked by mestizaje and intertextuality, so A and E are false. Quechua spans Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador, and Domingo Dzul Poot retold Yucatec Maya tales.

'Woman to Man' and 'The Old Prison' are in Wright's Woman to Man (1949). 'Meditation on a Bone' and 'Imperial Adam' are A. D. Hope's.

City of Glass (1985), Ghosts (1986) and The Locked Room (1986).

The State could only lock up his body: 'it was half-witted… timid as a lone woman with her silver spoons'. His townsmen proved 'friends for summer weather'.