ENG 340: Preparation for Final Examination [125 Points]
Your final examination will consist of two sections: a matching section asking you to match quotations from the assigned readings [only the nine short stories and two plays] with the appropriate titles and an essay Ruth Ozeki’s My Year of Meats. Instructions for completing each section of the examination are provided below.
Section I: Matching [50 Points]
The twenty-five matching items will be selected from the nine assigned short stories and two plays. You are not responsible for Kindred because each of you has completed an essay on that novel. Your task will be to place the letter of the alphabet corresponding to the correct story title in the blank preceding each quotation. Each item will be worth two points. Print and use capital letters on the answer sheet to avoid the confusion that sometimes results from cursive writing of lower case letters. The stories will be presented in alphabetical order and assigned a letter of the alphabet as demonstrated in the chart below:
A. / “Best Quality” by Amy TanB. / Dutchman by Amiri Baraka
C. / “The Joy Luck Club” by Amy Tan
D. / “The Lesson” by Toni Cade Bambara
E. / “A Moving Day” by Susan Nuñes
F. / “No Name Woman” by Maxine Hong Kingston
G. / “White Tigers” by Maxine Hong Kingston
H. / “A Pair of Tickets” by Amy Tan
I. / “Sonny’s Blues” by James Baldwin
J. / “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan
K. / Zoo Story by Edward Albee
Please note that only eleven texts are involved but you will be asked to respond to twenty-five quotations, so each story can be the correct answer more than once. Therefore, it is not useful to keep track of which stories you have used as answers in an attempt to figure out the correct answer by process of elimination. Some titles may be the correct answer as many as three times, while some titles may only be the correct answer once. To further assist you, I will project a list of the stories in the order in which we read them on the screen at the front of the room. Here are a couple of sample quotations. Use the above key to select your answers:
_____1. And I whispered, “They’ll think I’m responsible, that she died because I didn’t appreciate her.”
_____2. “She gave it to me after I divorced. I guess my mother’s telling me I’m still worth something.”
Section II. Essay on My Year of Meats [75 Points]
The essay questions were provided in advance in Week Twelve of our syllabus as study questions for the novel. Please go to our on-line syllabus or click on this link:
Essay Topics for My Year of Meats
You are also required to bring to class a typed page containing your thesis statement and an outline of your short essay. The outline may include the topic sentence for each body paragraph and lists of examples that you intend to use while completing the in-class essay. Of course, you will use MLA documentation style when presenting quotations from the text that you have chosen. Set the margins of your typed 8.5 X 11” page at 1” on all four sides of the page and use a Times New Roman 12 font. Set your paragraphs for double space.
I will supply lined paper for the examination.