Exorcise
15th October 2007, 12:53
Zadie Smith's admiration of E.M. Foster's Howards End is clear from the first line of her On Beauty, although she hasnt openly expressed it elsewhere. It would be wrong to call this novel simpl an updated version of Foster' s novel , though, as relationships have been altered and new themes have been introduced. However, the central issues of Howards End are the conflict between two families of opposing political abd moral opinions, and issues of class and ambition in a society based on strict rules. These are also the framework that supports Smith' s exceptional novel. To recreate the divided society Foster' s early 20th-century England, Smith has chosen an American university outside Boston, quite similar to Harvard, where Foster worked for a while. She has added an extra dimension to Foster' s examination of class by also looking at race and nationality.
1- It is clear that the writer of the passage .............. .
a)loves E.M. Foster' s novel Howards End
b)has already read all the books by Zadie Smith
c)find great similarities between On Beauty and Howards End
d)is knowledgeable about early 20th-centruy English society
e)prefers books that deal with race and nationality
2- It is implied in the passage that Zadie Smith ............. .
a)was a professor at Harvard for a time
b)believes that Howard End is now out of date
c)wrote On Beauty after giving up and academic career
d)thinks that Howards End is the best novel ever written
e)centred her novel on two ideologically and morally different families
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1- It is clear that the writer of the passage .............. .
a)loves E.M. Foster' s novel Howards End
b)has already read all the books by Zadie Smith
c)find great similarities between On Beauty and Howards End
d)is knowledgeable about early 20th-centruy English society
e)prefers books that deal with race and nationality
2- It is implied in the passage that Zadie Smith ............. .
a)was a professor at Harvard for a time
b)believes that Howard End is now out of date
c)wrote On Beauty after giving up and academic career
d)thinks that Howards End is the best novel ever written
e)centred her novel on two ideologically and morally different families
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