TEST GUIDE ENGLISH SUBTEST I - CSETs

4. Literary works such as James Joyce's
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man,
Gustave Flaubert's A Sentimental
Education, and Thomas Mann's
The Magic Mountain provide examples
of which of the following traditional
novelistic forms?
A. nouveau roman or "new novel"
B. social novel
C. bildungsroman or "novel of
formation"
D. historical novel
English Subtest I
5. Literary works by postmodern British
writers such as Angela Carter, Salman
Rushdie, and Jeanette Winterson
generally tend to share which of the
following characteristics?
A. the use of fragmented narrative
structures with multiple shifts in
consciousness, chronology, and
location
B. an emphasis on the rich universality
of life in cultures and
countries all over the world
C. a sense of sentimental nostalgia for
nineteenth- and early-twentiethcentury
life, typically expressed in
rueful, melancholic tones
D. the use of brief, economic literary
forms and a spare, astringent
literary style
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