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Gap-fill exercise

Fill in all the gaps, then press "Check" to check your answers. Use the "Hint" button to get a free letter if an answer is giving you trouble. You can also click on the "[?]" button to get a clue. Note that you will lose points if you ask for hints or clues!

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1. All of E.M. Forster's novels, A Passage to India, are set in Europe.
2. Jane Austen novels were popular in her day; , they are still widely read.
3. Katherine Mansfield's short stories are brilliant examples of the genre; I'd recommend the ones she wrote later in her life.
4. I've never appreciated D.H. Lawrence's work he's supposed to be a great English writer - in other words I think he's rather overrated.
5. Charles Dickens's novels, for example Oliver Twist, were published monthly as serials, each new instalment was eagerly awaited by readers.
6. Mary Ann Evans was an independent, free-thinking woman; all her novels were written under a male pseydonym: George Eliot.
7. Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim is his best work - that's what I think.
8. Anne, Charlotte and Emily Brontë all wrote novels which are well worth reading - Emily's Wuthering Heights and Charlotte's Jane Eyre.