CSET English Exam Questions and
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1964, Lunchbox Poems, NY School - ✔✔Frank O'Hara
The Invisible Man (1952) - ✔✔Ralph Ellison
Catcher in the Rye (1951) - ✔✔JD Salinger
The Second Sex (1949) - ✔✔Simone de Beauvoir
1984, Animal Farm ((1940s) - ✔✔George Orwell
Death of a Salesman, The Crucible (1940-50s) - ✔✔Arthur Miller
The Naked and the Dead (1948) (autobiographical, WW2) - ✔✔Norman Mailer
Red Wheelbarrow, This Is Just to Say, Objectivism - ✔✔William Carlos Williams
A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) romantic/realistic view of the south - ✔✔Tennessee
Williams
Argentinian, fantasy/myth/philosophy, Book of Imaginary Beings (1967), Other
Inquisitions (1952) - ✔✔Jorge Luis Borges
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,The Stranger, Myth of Sisyphus (1942); man's existence in an indifferent universe -
✔✔Albert Camus
The Ponder Heart (1954); southern vernacular, history, culture - ✔✔Eudora Welty
The Age of Anxiety (1947), As I Walked Out One Evening; witty, musical, innovative w
rhythms - ✔✔WH Auden
Uncle Tom's Children (1938), Native Son, The Outsider, Black Boy - ✔✔Richard Wright
Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, Cannery Row, East of Eden (1930s-50s) - ✔✔John
Steinbeck
Gone With the Wind; suffering the end of a society and its values - ✔✔Margaret
Mitchell
U.S.A trilogy; country deeply divided by class and commercialism - ✔✔John Dos Passos
Tropic of Cancer/Capricorn (1961-2); banned in US for sexual images; beat generation -
✔✔Henry Miller
A Brave New World (1932) - ✔✔Aldous Huxley
All Quiet on the Western Front (1929) - ✔✔Erich Remarque
The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Absalom Absalom; Southern aristocracy's
attempts to survive, racial inequality, burden carried by slaves - ✔✔William Faulkner
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, Old Man and the Sea, Farewell to Arms, The Sun Also Rises, For Whom the Bell Tolls
(1920s-50s) - ✔✔Hemingway
Imagist, highly controversial, sexual, The Cantos - ✔✔Ezra Pound
The Great Gatsby (1925), This Side of Paradise - ✔✔F Scott Fitzgerald
The Magic Mountain (allegory, 1924); also wrote on Dr Faustus - ✔✔Thomas Mann
A Room with a View (1908), A Passage to India (1924); social justice/dissolution of the
upper class - ✔✔Edward Forster
The Enormous Room (1922); unconventional typography/punctuation, light and joyful
but complex - ✔✔EE Cummings
The Mousetrap (1952); characters Hercules Poirot, Jane Marple; over 80 detective novels
- ✔✔Agatha Christie
Short story writer, early 1900s, complex psychological character development -
✔✔Katherine Mansfield
My Antonia; wrote about the pioneering spirit - ✔✔Willa Cather
The Windhover, Pied Beauty, Spring and Fall to a Young Child, God's Grandeur;
struggled w depression and religious doubt - ✔✔Gerard Manley Hopkins
To the Lighthouse (1927), Ms Dalloway (1920s); suicide in 1941 - ✔✔Virginia Woolf
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Answers 100% Pass
1964, Lunchbox Poems, NY School - ✔✔Frank O'Hara
The Invisible Man (1952) - ✔✔Ralph Ellison
Catcher in the Rye (1951) - ✔✔JD Salinger
The Second Sex (1949) - ✔✔Simone de Beauvoir
1984, Animal Farm ((1940s) - ✔✔George Orwell
Death of a Salesman, The Crucible (1940-50s) - ✔✔Arthur Miller
The Naked and the Dead (1948) (autobiographical, WW2) - ✔✔Norman Mailer
Red Wheelbarrow, This Is Just to Say, Objectivism - ✔✔William Carlos Williams
A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) romantic/realistic view of the south - ✔✔Tennessee
Williams
Argentinian, fantasy/myth/philosophy, Book of Imaginary Beings (1967), Other
Inquisitions (1952) - ✔✔Jorge Luis Borges
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,The Stranger, Myth of Sisyphus (1942); man's existence in an indifferent universe -
✔✔Albert Camus
The Ponder Heart (1954); southern vernacular, history, culture - ✔✔Eudora Welty
The Age of Anxiety (1947), As I Walked Out One Evening; witty, musical, innovative w
rhythms - ✔✔WH Auden
Uncle Tom's Children (1938), Native Son, The Outsider, Black Boy - ✔✔Richard Wright
Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, Cannery Row, East of Eden (1930s-50s) - ✔✔John
Steinbeck
Gone With the Wind; suffering the end of a society and its values - ✔✔Margaret
Mitchell
U.S.A trilogy; country deeply divided by class and commercialism - ✔✔John Dos Passos
Tropic of Cancer/Capricorn (1961-2); banned in US for sexual images; beat generation -
✔✔Henry Miller
A Brave New World (1932) - ✔✔Aldous Huxley
All Quiet on the Western Front (1929) - ✔✔Erich Remarque
The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Absalom Absalom; Southern aristocracy's
attempts to survive, racial inequality, burden carried by slaves - ✔✔William Faulkner
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, Old Man and the Sea, Farewell to Arms, The Sun Also Rises, For Whom the Bell Tolls
(1920s-50s) - ✔✔Hemingway
Imagist, highly controversial, sexual, The Cantos - ✔✔Ezra Pound
The Great Gatsby (1925), This Side of Paradise - ✔✔F Scott Fitzgerald
The Magic Mountain (allegory, 1924); also wrote on Dr Faustus - ✔✔Thomas Mann
A Room with a View (1908), A Passage to India (1924); social justice/dissolution of the
upper class - ✔✔Edward Forster
The Enormous Room (1922); unconventional typography/punctuation, light and joyful
but complex - ✔✔EE Cummings
The Mousetrap (1952); characters Hercules Poirot, Jane Marple; over 80 detective novels
- ✔✔Agatha Christie
Short story writer, early 1900s, complex psychological character development -
✔✔Katherine Mansfield
My Antonia; wrote about the pioneering spirit - ✔✔Willa Cather
The Windhover, Pied Beauty, Spring and Fall to a Young Child, God's Grandeur;
struggled w depression and religious doubt - ✔✔Gerard Manley Hopkins
To the Lighthouse (1927), Ms Dalloway (1920s); suicide in 1941 - ✔✔Virginia Woolf
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