Praxis 5047 Middle school english UPDATED Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers

Praxis 5047 Middle school english ACTUAL
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
Madeline l'Engle - CORRECT ANSWER - A wrinkle in time, a
A swift tilting planet,
A wind in the door
24 days before Christmas


Geoffrey Chaucer. (1343-1400) - CORRECT ANSWER - *Father of English literature
The Canterbury tales ( pilgrims on their way
to Canterbury)
The parlement of foules


Mary Shelby (British romantic ) - CORRECT ANSWER - Frankenstein



Jane Austin( British roman) - CORRECT ANSWER - Emma
Pride and prejudice
Sense and sensibility


William Faulkner - CORRECT ANSWER - Sound of fury
As I lay dying
A rose for Emily
* greatest author of southern lit.
*novels based on southern living


Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) - CORRECT ANSWER - *British math ; md; scientist
*Oxford dictionary credits him with over 100 New words
*dictionary quotes him over 3636 times

, Maya Angelou - CORRECT ANSWER - *Am. Poet
*civil rts activist
I know why the caged Bird sings


Percy B. Shelly (1792-1822) - CORRECT ANSWER - *British Roman.
*English poet
*wrote on civil disobeying


Edward Albee - CORRECT ANSWER - * Am playwright
The zoo story
The sandbox
The Am. Dream


George Orwell - CORRECT ANSWER - Animal Farm
1984


C. S. Lewis (post modernist) - CORRECT ANSWER - *British apologist
*wrote for the Christian faith
*one of best known conservative writers
of 20th
Chronicles of Narnia(1950)
The screwtape letters


Andre Breton - CORRECT ANSWER - *surrealism
*influenced by Freud
*Dream analysis; free imagination