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Exam Format

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Short-essay Responses

Each response should be as complete as possible, meaning short-essay. This course emphasizes composition, which means "writing." You should refer to the literary pieces to support your answers with a balance of quotes and/or paraphrased details. You do not need to have a works cited page or indicate the page location of your quotes, but you should put direct quotes in quotation marks in a clear context of the literature and credit your sources. Be sure to credit your sources in an informal MLA format (as you might in a classroom exam), but do not limit your answer to a cited reference. Remember, this is your opportunity to show what you know and how well you can express what you have learned, so put some time and effort into all the questions.

In general, an answer that shows a loose knowledge of the work and an elementary understanding of what the passage and the work are about but with little detail and no engagement with the issues of the passage will get a "C" of some sort. Answers showing good detail and posing a solid general thesis in response to the specific passage will get a "B." "A" will be reserved for answers that make a sophisticated case using precise detail from the work, beyond the literal text. Remember, this is your opportunity to show what you know and how well you can express what you have learned, so put some time and effort into all the questions. The expectations for your answers are higher than those for study questions, so some answers may not score as high in the exam as they might in the study questions.

It is not to your advantage to answer more questions than requested in the directions; for example, if you answer four questions when only three are requested, your first three responses will be the ones scored unless there is some indication that a particular response should not be graded. This indication must be clear as I will not debate the issue and will grade only what are clearly your intended responses.

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Student's Name

Professor Phil

World Literature I

May 4, 2016

WORLD LITERATURE STUDIES FINAL EXAM

I. ANSWER MANDATORY QUESTION - Answer the following question. Explain your response as completely as possible. Be sure to develop your answer with as many details as you can use from the literature for support, including direct quotes. (50 points)
Address the following points in this mandatory exam question:

• Discuss the challenged convention and the consequences of imposed expectations on "the other."

• What undefined lesson(s) can the reader take from these unconventional fairy tales?

• How can we relate these conventions to the expectations imposed on one another in everyday life?

Choose either Group 1 or Group 2 as your focal topic:

• Group 1: "My Mistress' Eyes," "The 100% Perfect Girl" and Candide challenge conventions of love and beauty imposed upon those who are the objects of affection.

• Group 2: "LususNaturae," "The Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" and Candidechallenge the conventions of community and the expectations each of us must fulfill in order to be an accepted family member or citizen.

Magical Realism challenges convention in a fantastic form analogous to what we often categorize as Fairy Tale. Magical Realism challenges the convention of the fairy tale lesson by defying a contrived lesson, or any "happily ever after." Instead, the stories challenge, or deconstruct, the convention of our expectations of others, or "the other," in a metaphorical state with multiple interpretations. (Access following link: Understanding "The Other")

II. ANSWER TWO QUESTIONS - Answer any two of the following questions. Explain each response as completely as possible. Be sure to develop your answers with as many details as you can use from the literature for support. (25 points each)

2. Speech and conversation are important in the play, and many of the characters have distinctive ways of speaking. How do the characters' speech patterns differ?

3. How do gossip, conversation, and overhearing function in the play?

4. Why might it be hard to believe that Hero and Claudio really love each other?

5. What does the play say about relationships between women and men?

III. BONUS QUESTION - Answer one of the following bonus questions for up to 5 additional points. Explain your response as completely as possible. Be sure to develop your answer with supporting details from the text.

• A central theme in the play is trickery or deceit, whether for good or evil purposes. Counterfeiting, or concealing one's true feelings, is part of this theme. Good characters as well as evil ones engage in deceit as they attempt to conceal their feelings: Beatrice and Benedick mask their feelings for one another with bitter insults, Don John spies on Claudio and Hero. Who hides and what is hidden? How does deceit function in the world of the play, and how does it help the play comment on theater in general?

• In this play, accusations of unchaste and untrustworthy behavior can be just as damaging to a woman's honor as such behavior itself. Is the same true for the males in the play? How is a man's honor affected by accusations of untrustworthiness or unfaithfulness? Do sexual fidelity and innocence fit into the picture in the same way for men as it does for women? Examine the question of honor and fidelity as it relates to four male characters in the play: Benedick, Leonato, Claudio, and Don Pedro. What could Shakespeare be saying about the difference between male and female honor?