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.