Study Guide for Revenge and Justice Unit Test (Wednesday, Feb 15)

Part I: Background Chart (14 points)

·  For each story, you need to be able to identify the author, country, time and genre.

·  This section will be matching (the authors, countries, times and genres will be listed).

·  The country and time refer to the author’s country and time period—not the setting of the story.

·  For the dates, you need to know the century, not the specific date.

Title / Author / Genre / Place / Time / Where you can find it:
“The Shoes” / Nassar Ibrahim / Short story / Palestine / 21st century / Online
(link on website)
“Black Sheep” / Italo Calvino / Short story / Cuba/Italy / 20th century / Reading the World
red: 193; green: 203
“The Guest” / Albert Camus / Short Story / Algeria/ France / 20th century / World Masterpieces
p. 1232-1246
“The Last Judgment” / Karel Capek / Short story / Czechoslovakia / 20th Century / Reading the World
red 205; green: 217
“The Saboteur” / Ha Jin / Short story / China/ USA / 20th century / Reading the World
Red: 495; green: 538
The Inferno
excerpts / Dante Alighieri / Epic poem / Florence, Italy / 14th century / World Masterpieces
p. 665-671, 683-690
“Hanging in Chad” This American Life / Ira Glass / Radio feature / USA / 21st century / Listen in class
(link on website)

Part II: Characters (16 points)

·  You will match quotes or descriptions to the correct character.

·  Nizar

·  The honest man

·  Daru

·  The Arab

·  Balducci

·  Mr. Chiu

·  Fenjin

·  Adamou

·  The baiters

·  Ferdinand Kugler

·  God

·  Dante

·  Laura Blumenfeld

·  Omar

Part III: Multiple Choice (50 points)

·  There will be questions from each story in the chart, plus the Laura Blumenfeld interview and the Dr. Pamela Gerloff article (see website for links to articles).

·  Review notes from class discussions, homework, handouts, plots and characters.

·  Think about the themes of revenge and justice, and how they are shown in each story.

Part IV: Quotation Identification (20 points)

·  For each quotation, you will have to identify which story it came from. There will not be any quotes from “Hanging in Chad.”

·  Review plots and characters of stories.