Guaranteed to put a smile on your face

[Wilde woman]

I'm studying to take the GRE English literature subject test and the following question showed up on one of my practice tests. If only more test writers had such a sense of humor. :D


"Are you not happy in Hertfordshire, Mr. Raskolnikov?" asked Elizabeth. "Would you be happy," he replied, "if you had killed a miserable pawnbroker?" "How easily may a bad habit be formed!" cried Elizabeth, and with this in mind, though she hoped he was not in earnest, she very soon afterwards took leave of him.

138. Which of the following titles would be most appropriate for a work containing this passage?

(A) Murder at Thirteen Rue de Toot
(B) Elizabeth and Anna Kremlina
(C) The Importance of Being Elizabeth
(D) Pride and Punishment
(E) The Golden Fawn

Yes, Anna KREMLINA! That's not a typo! :lol:

I'm trying to imagine how scenes from the other answer choices would look like! Now, if only the rest of the test were this entertaining.

[manolia]

:lol: Anna Kremlina resides in Kremlin, no? :lol:

[Pryderi Agni]

And her father was named Vasily Kremlin???

That is funny though.

[kiki1982]

:lol::lol::thumbs_up:D

[PoeticPassions]

so there really is one correct answer to this??? I do love the titles.. I have my pick... but really, this was a question!?

lol

[Wilde woman]

so there really is one correct answer to this??? I do love the titles.. I have my pick... but really, this was a question!?

lol

Yes, the answer is (D).

Apparently, this is something incoming grad students MUST know. :p

[underyourskin]

ahhaha... good stuff

[Lokasenna]

I think that's brilliant. It's part of the pleasent eccentricity that surrounds the most interesting bits of higher education.

[andave_ya]

:laughing so hard I'm crying: I just got it! Elizabeth and Rasolnikov! Makes me interested to see what the others are a combination of. :brow: