LET Review about geology and science as it relates to the earth and its composition are located here.
1. Around what body of water will you find the region known as the Ring of Fire?
A. Pacific Ocean
B. Arctic Ocean
C. Atlantic Ocean
D. Indian Ocean
Correct Answer: A
As shown in the diagram, the Pacific Ocean is surrounded by zones of high volcanic and seismic activity. Some of the world's best-known volcanoes are found there, and over three quarters of all major earthquakes occur in the Ring of Fire. The diagram used for this question does not show the bottom part of the ring - the volcanic activity extends south to Antarctica. The oceans have been renamed, and the part of the Pacific Ocean which used to border Antarctica has been renamed the Southern Ocean. The pink line in the diagram terminates at the latitude where the name changes, but the ocean is continuous, and the plates also extend to the south.
2. The current explanation for the geologic processes behind the Ring of Fire is that large pieces of the Earth's surface, called plates, are moving around. What is the name for the field of study which investigates this motion?
A. Terrology
B. Plate tectonics
C. Oceanography
D. Crust kinematics
Correct Answer: B.
This basic idea was introduced to the world in 1912 by Alfred Wegner, who proposed what he called Continental Drift. The model has developed over the last century, and is far more sophisticated in the detail it can provide about the physical and chemical processes involved, but the principle remains the same. The lithosphere (the crust and the upper part of the mantle) is made up of plates, which can float across the surface of the asthenosphere (the more fluid part of the mantle immediately below the lithosphere). The movement of the plates means they run into each other, or move past each other, or separate from each other, at various points. The places where plates interact tend to be the sites of earthquakes and volcanoes.
3. On the west coast of South America, the Andes Mountains are the visible product of an ongoing process in which an oceanic plate runs into a continental plate, and slides underneath it. What is the term used to describe this process?
A. subduction
B. conduction
C. induction
D. convection
Correct Answer: A.
Plates that are running into each other are called convergent plates, or destructive margins. The result of the collision when both plates are continental is uplift mountains, such as the formation of the Himalayas as the Indian Plate collides with the Asian Plate. When one of them is an oceanic plate, that plate slides down to the asthenosphere or to the lower mantle, and is destroyed. The area where this happens is the site of earthquakes, volcanoes and mountain building. Subduction is responsible for much of the activity along the eastern part of the Pacific Ocean.
4. What is the name of the plate that is involved in convergence with the South American Plate along most of the western coast of South America?
A. Pacific Plate
B. Nazca Plate
C. Caribbean Plate
D. Scotia Plate
Correct Answer: B.
The eastern part of the Ring of Fire is mostly caused by the subduction of the Nazca Plate and the Cocos Plate. The larger of these is the Nazca Plate, named after a region in Peru. It is primarily responsible for the formation of the Andes mountain range, and is the reason why Chile and Peru have as many volcanoes and earthquakes as they do, including the largest earthquake ever recorded, the Great Chilean Earthquake, with its epicentre at Lumaco. Occurring on 22 May 1960, it recorded 9.5 on the Richter scale used to measure earthquake magnitudes.
5. The Cocos Plate is largely responsible for Mexico's very active volcanoes. Which of these volcanoes is NOT found in the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt, which is also called the Sierra Nevada?
A. Parícutin
B. Pico de Orizaba
C. Kilimanjaro
D. Popocatépetl
Correct Answer: C.
Pico de Orizaba is the highest point in Mexico, and is a currently-dormant stratovolcano. Popocatépetl (pictured in the question) is the country's second-highest peak, and by far its most active volcano. Until the end of the 20th century it had glaciers on its summit, but they have disappeared, primarily due to the heat generated by volcanic activity. Parícutin is a cinder-cone volcano which is unique because its formation has been completely documented. It started from a fissure in a farmer's field in 1943, and the first ejection of ash and stone was witnessed by the family. Media coverage excitedly followed, so the cone growth until activity subsided in 1952 was thoroughly recorded.
Kilimanjaro, one of the world's most recognisable volcanoes, is in Africa,not Mexico.
6. Mt St Helens, shown here during its 1980 eruption, is probably the best-known of the volcanoes along the west coast of North America, but it is only one of 20 major volcanoes and over 4,000 volcanic vents in the area where the Gorda and Juan de Fuca plates are converging on the North American plate along the Cascadia Fault. What is the name given to this region?
A. Western American Volcanic Zone
B. Juan de Fuca Volcanic Zone
C. Cascadia Volcanic Zone
D. Gorda Volcanic Zone
Correct Answer: C.
The Cascadia Volcanic Zone runs from northern California to Vancouver Island in British Columbia. The mechanics of this subduction zone are unusual,as there is no oceanic trench associated with it. The colliding plates scrape directly past each other, and material from the oceanic plate is transferred to the continental plate, forcing mountains upwards, in a process called accretion.
7. Canada's Northern Cordillera Volcanic Province, which contains most of Canada's most active volcanoes, is unusual because its activity is caused by the Pacific Plate moving past the North American Plate along the Queen Charlotte Fault. The resulting extension of the continental plate leads to volcanic activity through a process more commonly found in the middle of oceans. What is it called?
A. ripping
B. spreading
C. rifting
D. stretching
Correct Answer: C.
The separation of plates from one another in the middle of oceans means that magma emerges, and underwater volcanic mountain ranges are formed. These ranges are the indicators of mid-ocean plate boundaries. In the Northern Cordillera Volcanic Province, the plate interaction means that portions of the North American Plate are being pulled apart, leaving a weakness in the crust that leads to vulcanism. The process is called rifting, and the resultant volcanoes are called rift volcanoes. Faulting and extensional cracking are also involved in the region's volcanic activity.
8. Russia's Kamachatka Peninsula, on the northwest 'corner' of the Ring of Fire, has a number of active volcanoes, of several different types, including both stratovolcanoes and shield volcanoes. Which type of volcano is shown in this photo taken from the International Space Station?
A. Shield volcano
B. Stratovolcano
C. Neither of these
D. Both of these
Correct Answer: D.
Stratovolcanoes, also called composite volcanoes, are formed when the eruptions produce thick lava which hardens before moving very far. They usually have steep sides, and are prone to explosive eruptions. The most prominent peak in the photo is Kronotsky, a stratovolcano which last erupted in 1923.
Shield volcanoes are formed by more fluid lava, which spreads out over a larger distance before cooling sufficiently to harden. They are relatively broad and flat,hence their name - they resemble the shape of a shield laid on the ground. The rounded shield volcano to the right of Kronotsky in the photo is Schmidt Volcano, which is not known to have erupted in human memory.
Kamchatka also has volcanic types that are not as common as the two described here, including lava domes and fissure vents.
9. Indonesia has some of the most active volcanoes in the world, due to its location at the site of convergence of three different plates. Which three plates are they?
A. Pacific, Eurasian and Australian
B. Eurasian, Filipino and North American
C. African, Indian and Arabian
D. Pacific, Antarctic and Nazca
Correct Answer: D.
Indonesia has been the site of some of the largest volcanic explosions ever recorded. Lake Toba, in northern Sumatra, is in the caldera of a volcano whose eruption around 75,000 years ago is believed from archaeological evidence to have produced a worldwide volcanic winter lasting up to five or six years. In 1815, the eruption of Mount Tambora, in Sumbawa, was responsible for what was called 'The Year Without a Summer' due to the ash it produced. The 1883 eruption of Krakatau, a volcanic island located west of Java (no matter what the movie title says) is considered to have produced the loudest sound ever generated on the surface of the earth.
10. The southern part of the Ring of Fire lies along the northern edge of Antarctica. Most of the volcanic activity is caused by extensional processes. What is the name of the mid-ocean ridge where much of the activity occurs?
A. Mid-Antarctic Ridge
B. Pacific-Antarctic Ridge
C. Southern Ridge
D. Antarctic Ridge
Correct Answer: D.
The ridge is named because the Pacific and Antarctic plates are separating along its length, producing an underwater volcanic mountain range. Mount Erebus, the world's most southerly active volcano, is located on Ross Island, off the coast of Victoria Land. This region, which is near the western end of the Antarctic portion of the Ring of Fire, contains many of the best known Antarctic volcanoes. The other end, along the Antarctic Peninsula, contains the only local subduction zone, and is often considered to be an extension of the Andes Volcanic Zone with which we started our tour.
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Thursday, December 12, 2019
Social Science Pre ambulation
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Social Science Review Philippine Perambulations
Quiz
Wednesday, January 31, 2018
Social Science LET Review Questions with Answer Rationale
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1. The American influence is very evident in the Philippines and its fast food culture is evident in many towns and cities. Which is the most popular fast food chain in the country?
a. McDonald's
b. Jollibee
c. Wendy's
d. Fairwood
Correct Answer: B
Jollibee started as an ice cream parlour before branching out into burgers. Faced with the introduction of McDonalds in the late 70s, Tony Tan Caktiong's friends told him to either sell his shops to McDonalds or become one of their franchise holders. "They will eat you alive" he was told. He decided to fight and as they say "The rest is history".
Adapting his food to the Philippine palate, he added spaghetti and rice and has more than twice as many outlets as the American chain whose menus are virtually identical in every country.
2. Which ruler was the Philippines named after?
a. King Philip the First of Spain
b. King Philip the Third of Spain
c. Queen Philippa of Holland
d. King Philip the Second of Spain
Correct Answer: D
In 1565, the Spanish landed in Cebu with 500 armed soldiers and claimed the country in the name of Spain and remained there until 1898. Hence the great influence on the Philippines which is evident in its religion, culture, etc. Many of the family names are of Spanish origin.
3. Magellan attempted to sail around the world but was killed in the Philippines. Who led the men who killed him?
a. Araw Araw
b. Mahal
c. Mundo Mundo
d. Lapu Lapu
Correct Answer: D
Magellan landed in the Philippines in 1521 and was well received by many of the local natives. However a scuffle broke out between the Spanish and a local chieftain called Lapu Lapu who tried to protect his way of life. In the ensuing struggle, Magellan was killed but his crew completed the journey back to Spain. Thus the first circumnavigation of the world had been completed.
4. One of the Philippines delicacies is called balut. What is balut?
a. Raw milk fish
b. Dog
c. Monkey brains
d. A partially formed duck egg
Correct Answer: D
Although found in other parts of Asia, the balut in Philippines is cooked 17 days after being laid. Normally sold by street vendors, it is usually accompanied by a drink of beer. An acquired taste.
5. What is the national language of the Philippines?
a. Visayan
b. Filipino
c. Cebuano
d. Ilocano
Correct Answer: B
The Philippines, although home to many different tribes and languages, chose Filipino as their national language in 1987. Filipino is based on Tagalog, a regional language. English is also a national language.
a. McDonald's
b. Jollibee
c. Wendy's
d. Fairwood
Correct Answer: B
Jollibee started as an ice cream parlour before branching out into burgers. Faced with the introduction of McDonalds in the late 70s, Tony Tan Caktiong's friends told him to either sell his shops to McDonalds or become one of their franchise holders. "They will eat you alive" he was told. He decided to fight and as they say "The rest is history".
Adapting his food to the Philippine palate, he added spaghetti and rice and has more than twice as many outlets as the American chain whose menus are virtually identical in every country.
2. Which ruler was the Philippines named after?
a. King Philip the First of Spain
b. King Philip the Third of Spain
c. Queen Philippa of Holland
d. King Philip the Second of Spain
Correct Answer: D
In 1565, the Spanish landed in Cebu with 500 armed soldiers and claimed the country in the name of Spain and remained there until 1898. Hence the great influence on the Philippines which is evident in its religion, culture, etc. Many of the family names are of Spanish origin.
3. Magellan attempted to sail around the world but was killed in the Philippines. Who led the men who killed him?
a. Araw Araw
b. Mahal
c. Mundo Mundo
d. Lapu Lapu
Correct Answer: D
Magellan landed in the Philippines in 1521 and was well received by many of the local natives. However a scuffle broke out between the Spanish and a local chieftain called Lapu Lapu who tried to protect his way of life. In the ensuing struggle, Magellan was killed but his crew completed the journey back to Spain. Thus the first circumnavigation of the world had been completed.
4. One of the Philippines delicacies is called balut. What is balut?
a. Raw milk fish
b. Dog
c. Monkey brains
d. A partially formed duck egg
Correct Answer: D
Although found in other parts of Asia, the balut in Philippines is cooked 17 days after being laid. Normally sold by street vendors, it is usually accompanied by a drink of beer. An acquired taste.
5. What is the national language of the Philippines?
a. Visayan
b. Filipino
c. Cebuano
d. Ilocano
Correct Answer: B
The Philippines, although home to many different tribes and languages, chose Filipino as their national language in 1987. Filipino is based on Tagalog, a regional language. English is also a national language.
Wednesday, December 14, 2016
Filipino LET Review Questions
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1. “Magtatrabaho ako at ikaw ay mag-aaral upang makatapos ka ng pag-aaral.” Anong uri ng pangungusap ito?
a. Payak
b. Tambalan
c. Hugnayan
d. Langkapan
Answer: D
2. Mag-aalas-singko na _____ umaga _____ magising siya.
a. ng – ng
b. nang – nang
c. ng – nang
d. nang – kapag
Answer: C
3 Ang butong tinangay ng aso, walang pagsalang nalawayan ito. Ang kaisipang ito ay tumutukoy sa katotohanan ng ______.
a. Pagnanakaw
b. Pagtatanan
c. Pagpapakasal
d. Pakikipagkaibigan
Answer: B
4. Anong uri ng pagbigkas ang salitang “dambuhala”?
a. Malumi
b. Mabilis
c. Maragsa
d. Malumay
Answer: A
5. Ang katawagan sa pangngalan, pang-abay, pang-uri at pandiwa ay?
a. Palabuuan
b. Pangkayarian
c. Pangnilalaman
d. Palaugnayan
Answer: C
6. Pinakamahalagang nobelang Pilipino sa maraming taon na nalimbag noong 1906 at tumalakay nang masinsinan sa paksang puhunan laban paggawa at sa sosyalismo ang _____.
a. Luha ng Buwaya
b. Banaag at Sikat
c. Ibong Mandaragit
d. Pangginggera
Answer: B
7. Ayon kay Balagtas, “ang laki sa layaw, karaniwa’y hubad” kaya ang mga bata ay
a. jeproks
b. nag-aartista
c. nakapagtatapos sa pag-aaral
d. hindi sumusunod sa magulang
Answer: D
8. Noong taong 1962, ano ang pagbabago sa paglimbag ng diploma at sertipiko ng pagtatapos?
a. Pinahihintutan ang pribadong paaralan na maglimbag sa wikang Ingles
b. Nilimbag sa Tagalog ang diploma sa di-Tagalog na bayan
c. Nilimbag sa Filipino ang diploma ngunit may Ingles
d. Nalimbag sa Filipino ang diploma
Answer: D
9. Ang gintong panahon ng mga manunulat noong panahon ng Amerikano ay batid sa uring
a. Sanaysay
b. Nobela
c. Panulaan
d. Maikling kwento
Answer: D
10. Alin sa mga sumusunod ang may wastong gamit ng tinig ng pandiwa?
a. Ang hinog na papaya na kinuha sa puno ni Marie.
b. Kinuha ni Marie ang hinog na papaya sa puno.
c. Kinuha sa puno ang hinog na papaya ni Marie.
d. Papayang hinog ang kinuha sa puno ni Marie.
Answer: B
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a. Payak
b. Tambalan
c. Hugnayan
d. Langkapan
Answer: D
2. Mag-aalas-singko na _____ umaga _____ magising siya.
a. ng – ng
b. nang – nang
c. ng – nang
d. nang – kapag
Answer: C
3 Ang butong tinangay ng aso, walang pagsalang nalawayan ito. Ang kaisipang ito ay tumutukoy sa katotohanan ng ______.
a. Pagnanakaw
b. Pagtatanan
c. Pagpapakasal
d. Pakikipagkaibigan
Answer: B
4. Anong uri ng pagbigkas ang salitang “dambuhala”?
a. Malumi
b. Mabilis
c. Maragsa
d. Malumay
Answer: A
5. Ang katawagan sa pangngalan, pang-abay, pang-uri at pandiwa ay?
a. Palabuuan
b. Pangkayarian
c. Pangnilalaman
d. Palaugnayan
Answer: C
6. Pinakamahalagang nobelang Pilipino sa maraming taon na nalimbag noong 1906 at tumalakay nang masinsinan sa paksang puhunan laban paggawa at sa sosyalismo ang _____.
a. Luha ng Buwaya
b. Banaag at Sikat
c. Ibong Mandaragit
d. Pangginggera
Answer: B
7. Ayon kay Balagtas, “ang laki sa layaw, karaniwa’y hubad” kaya ang mga bata ay
a. jeproks
b. nag-aartista
c. nakapagtatapos sa pag-aaral
d. hindi sumusunod sa magulang
Answer: D
8. Noong taong 1962, ano ang pagbabago sa paglimbag ng diploma at sertipiko ng pagtatapos?
a. Pinahihintutan ang pribadong paaralan na maglimbag sa wikang Ingles
b. Nilimbag sa Tagalog ang diploma sa di-Tagalog na bayan
c. Nilimbag sa Filipino ang diploma ngunit may Ingles
d. Nalimbag sa Filipino ang diploma
Answer: D
9. Ang gintong panahon ng mga manunulat noong panahon ng Amerikano ay batid sa uring
a. Sanaysay
b. Nobela
c. Panulaan
d. Maikling kwento
Answer: D
10. Alin sa mga sumusunod ang may wastong gamit ng tinig ng pandiwa?
a. Ang hinog na papaya na kinuha sa puno ni Marie.
b. Kinuha ni Marie ang hinog na papaya sa puno.
c. Kinuha sa puno ang hinog na papaya ni Marie.
d. Papayang hinog ang kinuha sa puno ni Marie.
Answer: B
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LET English Reviewer Sentence Completion
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Choose the best answer for each item.
1. More than one friendly whale has nudged a boat with such _________ that passengers have been knocked overboard.
a. enthusiasm
b. animosity
c. lethargy
d. serenity
a. enthusiasm
b. animosity
c. lethargy
d. serenity
2. Readers were so bored with the verbose and redundant style of the Victorian novelists that they welcomed the change to the _________ style of Hemingway.
a. prolix
b. consistent
c. florid
d. terse
a. prolix
b. consistent
c. florid
d. terse
3. Fossils may be set in stone, but their interpretation is not; a new find may necessitate the __________ of a traditional theory.
a. assertion
b. revision
c. formulation
d. validation
a. assertion
b. revision
c. formulation
d. validation
4. The linguistic _____________ of the refugee children is reflected in their readiness to adopt the language of their homeland.
a. conservatism
b. inadequacy
c. adaptability
d. philosophy
a. conservatism
b. inadequacy
c. adaptability
d. philosophy
5. Lucille is too much ___________ in her writings: she writes a page when a sentence should suffice.
a. pleasant
b. lucid
c. verbose
d. efficient
a. pleasant
b. lucid
c. verbose
d. efficient
6. It is remarkable that a man so in the public eye, so highly praised and imitated, can retain his _______________.
a. idiosyncrasies
b. dogmas
c. humility
d. magniloquence
a. idiosyncrasies
b. dogmas
c. humility
d. magniloquence
7. Breaking with established artistic and social conventions, Picasso was _________ genius whose heterodox works infuriated the traditionalists of his day.
a. a venerated
b. a trite
c. an iconoclastic
d. an uncontroversial
a. a venerated
b. a trite
c. an iconoclastic
d. an uncontroversial
8. A tapeworm is an example of a __________ organism, one that lives within or on another creature, deriving some or all of its nutriment from its host.
a. a protozoan
b. a parasitic
c. an exemplary
d. an autonomous
a. a protozoan
b. a parasitic
c. an exemplary
d. an autonomous
9. The mob lost confidence of him because he never ___________ the grandiose promises he had made.
a. tired of
b. renegade on
c. delivered on
d. retreated from
a. tired of
b. renegade on
c. delivered on
d. retreated from
10. Emily Elizabeth Dickinson,received little honor in her lifetime but her poetic legacy has gained considerable fame _______________.
a. anonymously
b. posthumously
c. prematurely
d. previously
a. anonymously
b. posthumously
c. prematurely
d. previously
11. Unlike the highly ________ Romantic poets of the previous century, Rudyard Kipling and his fellow Victorian poets were _______ and interested in moralizing.
a. emotional . . . didactic
b. sensitive . . . strange
c. dramatic . . . warped
d. rhapsodic . . . lyrical
a. emotional . . . didactic
b. sensitive . . . strange
c. dramatic . . . warped
d. rhapsodic . . . lyrical
12. Ana is an interesting ________, an infinitely shy person who, in apparent contradiction, possesses an enormously intuitive ________ for understanding people.
a. phenomenon . . . disinclination
b. caricature . . . talent
c. paradox . . . gift
d. aberration . . . disdain
a. phenomenon . . . disinclination
b. caricature . . . talent
c. paradox . . . gift
d. aberration . . . disdain
13. Truculent in defending their rights of sovereignty under the Articles of the Confederation, the newly formed states __________ constantly.
a. apologized
b. squabbled
c. digressed
d. acquiesced
a. apologized
b. squabbled
c. digressed
d. acquiesced
14. No real life hero of ancient or modern days can surpass James Bond with his nonchalant _______ of death and the _________ with which he bears torture.
a. veneration . . . guile
b. concept . . . terror
c. disregard . . . fortitude
d. impatience . . . fickleness
a. veneration . . . guile
b. concept . . . terror
c. disregard . . . fortitude
d. impatience . . . fickleness
15. Surrounded by sycophants who invariably ________ in her singing, Zsa Zsa wearied of the constant adulation and longed for honest criticism.
a. assailed
b. thwarted
c. reciprocated
d. extolled
a. assailed
b. thwarted
c. reciprocated
d. extolled
16. Despite the growing ______________ of the Party list Representatives in the Philippine Congress, many political experts fell that the NGOs are still ______________ in the government.
a. decrease . . . inappropriate
b. prominence . . . underrepresented
c. skill . . . alienated
d. number . . . misdirected
a. decrease . . . inappropriate
b. prominence . . . underrepresented
c. skill . . . alienated
d. number . . . misdirected
17. Although Tagalogs often use the terms Bisaya and Cebuano ____________, people coming from the Southern part of the Philippines are profoundly aware of the ___________ the two.
a. unerringly . . . significance of
b. confidently . . . origins of
c. deprecatingly . . . controversies about
d. interchangeably . . . dissimilarities between
a. unerringly . . . significance of
b. confidently . . . origins of
c. deprecatingly . . . controversies about
d. interchangeably . . . dissimilarities between
18. There is nothing __________ or provisional about Bronte’s early critical pronouncements; she deals ___________ with what then radical new developments in poetry.
a. tentative . . . confidently
b. dogmatic . . . arbitrary
c. imprecise . . . inconclusively
d. shallow . . . superficially
a. tentative . . . confidently
b. dogmatic . . . arbitrary
c. imprecise . . . inconclusively
d. shallow . . . superficially
19. This well-documented history is of importance because it carefully __________ the __________ accomplishments of the Filipino artists who are all too little known to the public at large.
a. recognizes . . . negligible
b. scrutinizes . . . illusory
c. substantiates . . . considerable
d. distorts . . . noteworthy
a. recognizes . . . negligible
b. scrutinizes . . . illusory
c. substantiates . . . considerable
d. distorts . . . noteworthy
20. An experienced politician who knew better than to launch a campaign in troubled political waters, he intended to wait for a more ________ occasion before he announced his plans.
a. provocative
b. unseemly
c. questionable
d. propitious
a. provocative
b. unseemly
c. questionable
d. propitious
ANSWER KEY
1. A – enthusiasm
2. D – terse
3. B – revision
4. C – adaptability
5. C – verbose
6. C – humility
7. C – an iconoclastic
8. B – a parasitic
9. C – delivered on
10. B – posthumously
11. A – emotional . . . didactic
12. C – paradox . . . gift
13. B – squabbled
14. C – disregard . . . fortitude
15. D – extolled
16. B – prominence . . . underrepresented
17. D – interchangeably . . . dissimilarities between
18. A – tentative . . . confidently
19. C – substantiates . . . considerable
20. D – propitious
1. A – enthusiasm
2. D – terse
3. B – revision
4. C – adaptability
5. C – verbose
6. C – humility
7. C – an iconoclastic
8. B – a parasitic
9. C – delivered on
10. B – posthumously
11. A – emotional . . . didactic
12. C – paradox . . . gift
13. B – squabbled
14. C – disregard . . . fortitude
15. D – extolled
16. B – prominence . . . underrepresented
17. D – interchangeably . . . dissimilarities between
18. A – tentative . . . confidently
19. C – substantiates . . . considerable
20. D – propitious
English LET Review Question Literary Works and Authors
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1. Identify the author of this literary work: MEN WITHOUT WOMEN
a. Ernest Hemingway
b. Benjamin Disraeli
c. Louis-Ferdinand Celine
d. E.M. Forster
a. Ernest Hemingway
b. Benjamin Disraeli
c. Louis-Ferdinand Celine
d. E.M. Forster
2. PILGRIMS PROGRESS was written by:
a. John Bunyan
b. Jack London
c. Henry Fielding
d. Stendhal
a. John Bunyan
b. Jack London
c. Henry Fielding
d. Stendhal
3. DON QUIXOTE
a. Gustave Flaubert
b. Joseph Condrad
c. Miguel de Cervantes
d. D.H. Lawrence
a. Gustave Flaubert
b. Joseph Condrad
c. Miguel de Cervantes
d. D.H. Lawrence
4. Which of the following works by DANIEL DEFOE features a castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical island near Venezuela, encountering Native Americans, captives, and mutineers before being rescued?
a. Memoirs of a Cavalier
b. Robinson Crusoe
c. Moll Flanders
d. Captain Singleton
a. Memoirs of a Cavalier
b. Robinson Crusoe
c. Moll Flanders
d. Captain Singleton
5. VANITY FAIR is a novel satirizing society in early 19th-century Britain. Who wrote this classic?
a. Daniel Defoe
b. Wikie Collins
c. Herman Melville
d. William Makepeace Thackeray
a. Daniel Defoe
b. Wikie Collins
c. Herman Melville
d. William Makepeace Thackeray
6. JOURNEY TO THE END OF THE NIGHT
a. Wikie Collins
b. Herman Melville
c. Louis-Ferdinand Celine
d. Franz Kafka
a. Wikie Collins
b. Herman Melville
c. Louis-Ferdinand Celine
d. Franz Kafka
7. AS I LAY DYING
a. William Faulkner
b. Jerome K. Jerome
c. Erskine Childers
d. George Grosmith
a. William Faulkner
b. Jerome K. Jerome
c. Erskine Childers
d. George Grosmith
8. THE TRIAL is a novel which tells the story of a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, with the nature of his crime never revealed either to him or the reader. Who is the writer of this novel?
a. Henry James
b. Franz Kafka
c. Thomas Hardy
d. Fyodor Dostoevsky
a. Henry James
b. Franz Kafka
c. Thomas Hardy
d. Fyodor Dostoevsky
9. THE GREAT GATSBY
a. Ford Madox Fod
b. F. Scott Fitzgerald
c. D.H. Lawrence
d. Joseph Condrad
a. Ford Madox Fod
b. F. Scott Fitzgerald
c. D.H. Lawrence
d. Joseph Condrad
10. A PASSAGE TO INDIA is about the racial tensions and prejudices between indigenous Indians and the British colonists who rule India. Who wrote this novel?
a. Virginia Woolf
b. Oscar Wilde
c. Jack London
d. E. M. Forster
a. Virginia Woolf
b. Oscar Wilde
c. Jack London
d. E. M. Forster
11. MRS. DALLOWAY is a novel that details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway in post-World War I England. Who is its author?
a. Virginia Woolf
b. Charlotte Bronte
c. Mary Shelley
d. Emily Bronte
a. Virginia Woolf
b. Charlotte Bronte
c. Mary Shelley
d. Emily Bronte
12. ULYSSES chronicles the passage of Leopold Bloom through Dublin during an ordinary day, 16 June 1904.The title alludes to Odysseus, the hero of Homer’s Odyssey. Name the author of Ulysses.
a. Anthony Trollope
b. Kenneth Grahame
c. Laurence Strene
d. James Joyce
a. Anthony Trollope
b. Kenneth Grahame
c. Laurence Strene
d. James Joyce
13. THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS features the adventures of Richard Hannay, an all-action hero with a stiff upper lip. Who wrote this novel?
a. Honore De Balzac
b. Samuel Richardson
c. John Buchan
d. Thomas Love Peacock
a. Honore De Balzac
b. Samuel Richardson
c. John Buchan
d. Thomas Love Peacock
14. THE GOOD SOLDIER’s original title was The Saddest Story, but after the onset of World War I, the publishers asked its author for a new title. What is the name of its author?
a. Gustave Flaubert
b. Henry Fielding
c. Ford Madox Ford
d. Samuel Richardson
a. Gustave Flaubert
b. Henry Fielding
c. Ford Madox Ford
d. Samuel Richardson
15. THE RAINBOW is a novel with a frank treatment of sexual desire and the power it plays within relationships as a natural and even spiritual force of life. Who is its author?
a. D. H. Lawrence
b. Jonathan Swift
c. Alexandre Dumas
d. Daniel Defoe
a. D. H. Lawrence
b. Jonathan Swift
c. Alexandre Dumas
d. Daniel Defoe
16. IN THE SEARCH OF LOST TIME
a. Laurence Sterne
b. Marcel Proust
c. Jack London
d. Thomas Hardy
a. Laurence Sterne
b. Marcel Proust
c. Jack London
d. Thomas Hardy
17. THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS is a classic of children’s literature which was adapted partly on stage as Toad of Toad Hall in 1929. Name its author.
a. Kenneth Grahame
b. E.M. Foster
c. Thomas Hardy
d. Erskine Childers
a. Kenneth Grahame
b. E.M. Foster
c. Thomas Hardy
d. Erskine Childers
18. NOSTROMO features Señor Gould, a native Costaguanero of English descent who owns the silver-mining concession in Sulaco. Name the author of this novel.
a. Joseph Condrad
b. Samuel Richardson
c. George Elliot
d. Thomas Hardy
a. Joseph Condrad
b. Samuel Richardson
c. George Elliot
d. Thomas Hardy
19. THE CALL OF THE WILD is known for its dog protagonist. It is sometimes classified as a juvenile novel, suitable for children, but it is dark in tone and contains numerous scenes of cruelty and violence. Who wrote this novel?
a. Oscar Wilde
b. Jack London
c. Henry James
d. Kenneth Grahame
a. Oscar Wilde
b. Jack London
c. Henry James
d. Kenneth Grahame
20. THE RIDDLE OF THE SANDS is an early example of the espionage novel, with a strong underlying theme of militarism. It has been made into a film and TV film. Who wrote this novel?
a. Erskine Childers
b. William Faulkner
c. Jerome K. Jerome
d. Honore De Balzac
a. Erskine Childers
b. William Faulkner
c. Jerome K. Jerome
d. Honore De Balzac
21. JUDE THE OBSCURE, include themes such as class, scholarship, religion, marriage, and the modernisation of thought and society. Name its author.
a. Samuel Richardson
b. Franz Kafka
c. Thomas Hardy
d. Joseph Condrad
a. Samuel Richardson
b. Franz Kafka
c. Thomas Hardy
d. Joseph Condrad
22. THE DIARY OF A NOBODY has spawned the word “Pooterish” to describe a tendency to take oneself excessively seriously.Who is the author of this novel?
a. John Buchan
b. George Grossmith
c. Anthony Trollope
d. Samuel Richardson
a. John Buchan
b. George Grossmith
c. Anthony Trollope
d. Samuel Richardson
23. THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY is about a young man who sold his soul to the devil to ensure his portrait would age rather than himself. Which of the following is its author?
a. Herman Melville
b. Oscar Wilde
c. Jonathan Swift
d. Wikie Collins
a. Herman Melville
b. Oscar Wilde
c. Jonathan Swift
d. Wikie Collins
24. THREE MEN IN A BOAT was initially intended to be a serious travel guide with accounts of local history along the route. Who wrote this novel?
a. Benjamin Disraeli
b. Jerome K. Jerome
c. Laurence Stern
d. Marcel Proust
a. Benjamin Disraeli
b. Jerome K. Jerome
c. Laurence Stern
d. Marcel Proust
25. DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE is about a London lawyer named Gabriel John Utterson who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr Henry Jekyll, and the misanthropic Edward Hyde. Who is its author?
a. James Joyce
b. Jack London
c. Robert Louis Stevenson
d. Stendhal
a. James Joyce
b. Jack London
c. Robert Louis Stevenson
d. Stendhal
26. Which of the following is a work of SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS?
a. Animal Farm
b. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
c. The Scarlet Letter
d. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
a. Animal Farm
b. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
c. The Scarlet Letter
d. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
27. Which is a HENRY JAMES masterpiece?
a. Vanity Fair
b. The Portrait of Dorian Gray
c. The Portrait of a Lady
d. David Copperfield
a. Vanity Fair
b. The Portrait of Dorian Gray
c. The Portrait of a Lady
d. David Copperfield
28. Which novel features JOSEPHINE “JO” MARCH?
a. Wuthering Heights
b. Little Women
c. Sense and Sensibility
d. Scarlet Letter
a. Wuthering Heights
b. Little Women
c. Sense and Sensibility
d. Scarlet Letter
29. Which is an HONORE DE BALZAC novel?
a. The Black Sheep
b. The Charterhouse of Parma
c. The Count of Monte Cristo
d. Dangerous Laisons
a. The Black Sheep
b. The Charterhouse of Parma
c. The Count of Monte Cristo
d. Dangerous Laisons
30. Which of the following gothic authors wrote the THE INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE?
a. Anne Rice
b. Mary Shelley
c. Bram Stoker
d. Gaston Leroux
a. Anne Rice
b. Mary Shelley
c. Bram Stoker
d. Gaston Leroux
KEY TO CORRECTION AND EXPLANATION
1. A- Men Without Women (1927) is a collection of short stories written by American author Ernest Hemingway. The volume consists of fourteen stories, ten of which had been previously published in magazines. The story subjects include bullfighting, infidelity, divorce and death. “The Killers”, “Hills Like White Elephants” and “In Another Country” are considered to be among Hemingway’s best work.
1. A- Men Without Women (1927) is a collection of short stories written by American author Ernest Hemingway. The volume consists of fourteen stories, ten of which had been previously published in magazines. The story subjects include bullfighting, infidelity, divorce and death. “The Killers”, “Hills Like White Elephants” and “In Another Country” are considered to be among Hemingway’s best work.
2. A- The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come is a Christian allegory written by John Bunyan and published in February, 1678. It is regarded as one of the most significant works of religious English literature, has been translated into more than 200 languages, and has never been out of print.
Pilgrim’s Progress is an allegory of a Christian’s journey (here represented by a character called ‘Christian’) from the “City of Destruction” to the “Celestial City”. Along the way he visits such locations as the Slough of Despond, Vanity Fair, the Doubting Castle, and the Valley of the Shadow of Death.
Pilgrim’s Progress is an allegory of a Christian’s journey (here represented by a character called ‘Christian’) from the “City of Destruction” to the “Celestial City”. Along the way he visits such locations as the Slough of Despond, Vanity Fair, the Doubting Castle, and the Valley of the Shadow of Death.
3. C – Don Quixote, fully titled The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha, is a novel written by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes. Cervantes created a fictional origin for the story by inventing a Moorish chronicler for Don Quixote named Cide Hamete Benengeli. Published in two volumes a decade apart (in 1605 and 1615), Don Quixote is the most influential work of literature from the Spanish Golden Age in the Spanish literary canon.
4. B – ROBINSON CRUSOE was published in 1917, the story was likely influenced by the real-life Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish castaway who lived four years on the Pacific island called “Más a Tierra” (in 1966 its name was changed to Robinson Crusoe Island), Chile.
CAPTAIN SINGLETON (1720), is a bipartite adventure story whose first half covers a traversal of Africa, and whose second half taps into the contemporary fascination with piracy. It has been commended for its sensitive depiction of the close relationship between the eponymous hero and his religious mentor, the Quaker, William Walters, one which appears homoerotic to many modern readers.
MEMOIRS OF A CAVALIER (1720) is a work of historical fiction by Daniel Defoe, set during the Thirty Years’ War and the English Civil Wars.
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders (commonly known as simply “MOLL FLANDERS”) is a novel written by Daniel Defoe in 1722.
CAPTAIN SINGLETON (1720), is a bipartite adventure story whose first half covers a traversal of Africa, and whose second half taps into the contemporary fascination with piracy. It has been commended for its sensitive depiction of the close relationship between the eponymous hero and his religious mentor, the Quaker, William Walters, one which appears homoerotic to many modern readers.
MEMOIRS OF A CAVALIER (1720) is a work of historical fiction by Daniel Defoe, set during the Thirty Years’ War and the English Civil Wars.
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders (commonly known as simply “MOLL FLANDERS”) is a novel written by Daniel Defoe in 1722.
5. D – Vanity fair refers to a stop along the pilgrim’s progress: a never-ending fair held in a town called Vanity, which is meant to represent man’s sinful attachment to worldly things. It was written by William Makepeace Thackeray and was first published in 1847.
6. C – Journey to the End of Night (Voyage au bout de la nuit, 1932) is the first novel of Louis-Ferdinand Céline. This semi-autobiographical work describes antihero Ferdinand Bardamu. His surname, Bardamu, is derived from the French words Barda—the “pack” carried by World War I soldiers—and mu, the past participle of the verb mouvoir, meaning to move. Bardamu is involved with World War I, colonial Africa, and post-World War I America (where he works for the Ford Motor Company), returning in the second half of the work to France, where he becomes a medical doctor and establishes a practice in a poor Paris suburb, the fictional La Garenne-Rancy.
7. A – As I Lay Dying is a novel by the American author William Faulkner. The novel was written in six weeks while Faulkner was working at a power plant, published in 1930, and described by Faulkner as a “tour-de-force.” It is Faulkner’s fifth novel and consistently ranked among the best novels of 20th century literature. The title derives from Book XI of Homer’s The Odyssey, wherein Agamemnon speaks to Odysseus: “As I lay dying, the woman with the dog’s eyes would not close my eyes as I descended into Hades.”
The novel is known for its stream of consciousness writing technique, multiple narrators, and varying chapter lengths; the shortest chapter in the book consists of just five words, “My mother is a fish.”
The novel is known for its stream of consciousness writing technique, multiple narrators, and varying chapter lengths; the shortest chapter in the book consists of just five words, “My mother is a fish.”
8. B – The Trial (German: Der Prozeß) is a novel by Franz Kafka, first published in 1925. Like his other novels, The Trial was never completed, although it does include a chapter which brings the story to an end. After his death in 1924, Kafka’s friend and literary executor Max Brod edited the text for publication.
9. B – The Great Gatsby is a novel by the American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. First published on April 10, 1925, it is set on Long Island’s North Shore and in New York City during the summer of 1922. It is a critique of the American Dream.
10. D – A Passage to India (1924) is a novel by E. M. Forster set against the backdrop of the British Raj and the Indian independence movement in the 1920s. It was selected as one of the 100 great works of English literature by the Modern Library and won the 1924 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. Time magazine included the novel in its “TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005”
11. A – Mrs. Dalloway (published on 14 May 1925) is a novel by Virginia Woolf. It was created from two short stories, “Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street” and the unfinished “The Prime Minister”, the novel’s story is of Clarissa’s preparations for a party of which she is to be hostess. With the interior perspective of the novel, the story travels forwards and back in time and in and out of the characters’ minds to construct an image of Clarissa’s life and of the inter-war social structure.
12. D – Ulysses is a novel by the Irish author James Joyce, first serialised in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, then published in its entirety by Sylvia Beach on 2 February 1922, in Paris. One of the most important works of Modernist literature, it has been called “a demonstration and summation of the entire movement”.
13. C – The Thirty-Nine Steps is an adventure novel by the Scottish author John Buchan, first published in 1915 by William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh. It is the first of five novels featuring Richard Hannay, an all-action hero with a stiff upper lip and a miraculous knack for getting himself out of sticky situations.
14. C – The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion is a 1915 novel by English novelist Ford Madox Ford. It is set just before World War I and chronicles the tragedies of the lives of two seemingly perfect couples. The novel is told using a series of flashbacks in non-chronological order, a literary technique pioneered by Ford. It also makes use of the device of the unreliable narrator, as the main character gradually reveals a version of events that is quite different from what the introduction leads you to believe. The novel was loosely based on two incidents of adultery and on Ford’s messy personal life.
15. A – The Rainbow is a 1915 novel by British author D. H. Lawrence or David Herbert Richards Lawrence. It follows three generations of the Brangwen family, particularly focusing on the sexual dynamics of, and relations between, the characters.
16. B – In Search of Lost Time or Remembrance of Things Past is a semi-autobiographical novel in seven volumes by Marcel Proust. His most prominent work, it is popularly known for its extended length and the notion of involuntary memory, the most famous example being the “episode of the madeleine”. The novel is still widely referred to in English as Remembrance of Things Past, but the title In Search of Lost Time, a more accurate rendering of the French, has gained in usage since D.J. Enright’s 1992 revision of the earlier translation by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin. The complete story contains nearly 1.5 million words and is one of the longest novels ever written.
17. A – The Wind in the Willows is a classic of children’s literature by Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908. Alternately slow moving and fast paced, it focuses on four anthropomorphised animal characters in a pastoral version of England. The novel is notable for its mixture of mysticism, adventure, morality, and camaraderie.
18. A – Nostromo is a 1904 novel by Polish-born British novelist Joseph Conrad, set in the fictitious South American republic of “Costaguana.” It was originally published serially in two volumes of T.P.’s Weekly.
19. B – The Call of the Wild is a 1903 novel by American writer Jack London. The plot concerns a previously domesticated dog named Buck, whose primordial instincts return after a series of events leads to his serving as a sled dog in the Yukon during the 19th-century Klondike Gold Rush, in which sled dogs were bought at generous prices.
20. A – The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service is a 1903 novel by Erskine Childers. It is a novel that “owes a lot to the wonderful adventure novels of writers like Rider Haggard, that were a staple of Victorian Britain”; perhaps more significantly, it was a spy novel that “established a formula that included a mass of verifiable detail, which gave authenticity to the story.
21. C – Jude the Obscure, the last of Thomas Hardy’s novels, began as a magazine serial and was first published in book form in 1895. The book was burned publicly by William Walsham How, Bishop of Wakefield, in that same year. Its hero, Jude Fawley, is a working-class young man who dreams of becoming a scholar. The two other main characters are his earthy wife, Arabella, and his cousin, Sue.
22. B – The Diary of a Nobody, an English comic novel written by George Grossmith and his brother Weedon Grossmith with illustrations by Weedon, first appeared in the magazine Punch in 1888 – 89, and was first printed in book form in 1892. It is considered a classic work of humour and has never been out of print.
The diary is the fictitious record of fifteen months in the life of Mr. Charles Pooter, a middle aged city clerk of lower middle-class status but significant social aspirations, living in the fictional ‘Brickfield Terrace’ in Upper Holloway which was then a typical suburb of the impecuniously respectable kind. Other characters include his wife Carrie (Caroline), his son Lupin, his friends Mr Cummings and Mr Gowing, and Lupin’s unsuitable fiancée, Daisy Mutlar.
The diary is the fictitious record of fifteen months in the life of Mr. Charles Pooter, a middle aged city clerk of lower middle-class status but significant social aspirations, living in the fictional ‘Brickfield Terrace’ in Upper Holloway which was then a typical suburb of the impecuniously respectable kind. Other characters include his wife Carrie (Caroline), his son Lupin, his friends Mr Cummings and Mr Gowing, and Lupin’s unsuitable fiancée, Daisy Mutlar.
23. B – The Picture of Dorian Gray is the only published novel by Oscar Wilde, appearing as the lead story in Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine on 20 June 1890, printed as the July 1890 issue of this magazine. Wilde later revised this edition, making several alterations, and adding new chapters; the amended version was published by Ward, Lock, and Company in April 1891. The title is sometimes rendered incorrectly as The Portrait of Dorian Gray.
24. B – Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published in 1889, is a humorous account by Jerome K. Jerome of a boating holiday on the Thames between Kingston and Oxford.
One of the most praised things aboutthe novel is how undated it appears to modern readers — the jokes seem fresh and witty even today.
One of the most praised things aboutthe novel is how undated it appears to modern readers — the jokes seem fresh and witty even today.
25. C – Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is the original title of a novella written by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson and first published in 1886. The work is known for its vivid portrayal of a split personality, split in the sense that within the same person there is both an apparently good and an evil personality each being quite distinct from the other.
26. D – Samuel Langhorne Clemens is well known by his pen name Mark Twain. He is noted for his novel ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN (1884).
UNCLE TOM’S CABIN; or, Life Among the Lowly is a novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
ANIMAL FARM is a novel by Eric Blair, commonly known as George Orwell.
SCARLET LETTER is a novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne also known as Ashley A. Royce.
UNCLE TOM’S CABIN; or, Life Among the Lowly is a novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
ANIMAL FARM is a novel by Eric Blair, commonly known as George Orwell.
SCARLET LETTER is a novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne also known as Ashley A. Royce.
27. C – THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY is a novel by Henry James. It is one of his most popular long novels, and is regarded by critics as one of his finest.
The Portrait of a Lady is the story of a spirited young American woman, Isabel Archer, who “affronts her destiny” and finds it overwhelming. She inherits a large amount of money and subsequently becomes the victim of Machiavellian scheming by two American expatriates.
The Portrait of Dorian Gray is a novel by OSCAR WILDE. Vanity Fair was written by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERY.
The Portrait of a Lady is the story of a spirited young American woman, Isabel Archer, who “affronts her destiny” and finds it overwhelming. She inherits a large amount of money and subsequently becomes the victim of Machiavellian scheming by two American expatriates.
The Portrait of Dorian Gray is a novel by OSCAR WILDE. Vanity Fair was written by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERY.
28. B – Josephine “Jo” March is the protagonist of Little Women and is the autobiographical depiction of the writer, Louisa May Alcott, herself. In Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte featured CATHERINE EARNSHAW as the female protagonist. ELIZABETH BENNET hails froms Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice while HESTER PRYNNE came alive in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter.
29. A – La Rabouilleuse (THE BLACK SHEEP), is a 1842 novel by Honoré de Balzac as part of his series La Comédie humaine. The Black Sheep is the title of the English translation by Donald Adamson published by Penguin Classics. It tells the story of the Bridau family, trying to regain their lost inheritance after a series of unfortunate mishaps.
THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO is an adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas.
THE CHARTERHOUSE PARMA is a novel published in 1839 by Stendhal.
DANGEROUS LIAISONS is play by Christopher James Hampton.
THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO is an adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas.
THE CHARTERHOUSE PARMA is a novel published in 1839 by Stendhal.
DANGEROUS LIAISONS is play by Christopher James Hampton.
30. A – Gaston Leroux, a French novelist, wrote THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA. Bram Stoker is known for his novel DRACULA while Mary Shelley wrote FRANKENSTEIN during the Year without Summer in Europe. Anne Rice is the only non-classic writer in the options. She wrote THE INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE IN 1973.
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