Final Examination Preparation for ENG 444 Summer 2015

Part I. Matching. Thirty Matching Questions @ 3 points each for a total of 90 points.

I will supply a quotationand you will place the letter of the alphabet corresponding to the correct story or novel title in the blank preceding the item. To assist you with the examination, a list of the stories and authors in the order in which you read them for class will be projected on the screen at the front of the classroom. You will receive the key copied below on a separate sheet of paper and will use it to supply answers to the matching items.

A / “Ambrose His Mark” by John Barth
B / “Autobiography” by John Barth
C / “The Babysitter” by Robert Coover
D / “The Balloon” by Donald Barthelme
E / “Death of a Traveling Salesman” by Eudora Welty
F / “Everything That Rises Must Converge” by Flannery O’Connor
G / “The God of Dark Laughter” by Michael Chabon
H / “Goodbye and Good Luck” by Grace Paley
I / “Good Country People” by Flannery O’Connor
J / “The Last of the Solid Gold Watches” by Tennessee Williams
K / “Little Expressionless Animals” by David Foster Wallace
L / “Lost in the Funhouse” by John Barth
M / “Margins” by Donald Barthelme
N / “My Appearance” by David Foster Wallace
O / “A Shower of Gold” by Donald Barthelme
P / “Title” by John Barth
Q / “A Woman Young and Old” by Grace Paley

Here are a couple of sample matching questions to illustrate how the process works:

____1. “Those cannot possibly be his real shoes…you idiot.”

____2. “You may not be interested in absurdity,” she said, “but absurdity is interested in you.”

Part II. Five ID responses from the five plays at 20 points each for 100 points.

I will supply eight objects or significant quotations selected from The Death of a Salesman, The Glass Menagerie, The Zoo Story, Dutchman, and The American Dream. You will comment on five of the IDs, identifying the play and author and discussing the significance of each object or quotation in a one-paragraph response.

Part III. You will select a single character from the lists below and discuss how that character functions in the relevant novel. You may discuss how the character functions to develop a thematic concern, to further our understanding of a conflict, or to further our understanding of the novel’s protagonist. Your essay is worth 60 points.

If you are interested in discussing a character not on one of the lists below—but not a protagonist—Not Oedipa Maas, Tommy Wilhelm, Sal or Dean, or Keith Neudecker or Lianne—explain your choice to me after a class meeting or in an e-mail.]

From Saul Bellow’s Seize the Day: Dr. Tamkin or Dr. Adler.

From Jack Kerouac’s On the Road: Camille, Carlo Marx, Mary Lou, or Remi Boncoeur.

From Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49: Dr. Hilarious, Randolph Driblette, Genghis Cohen, Mike Fallopian, or Wendell “Mucho” Maas.

From Don DeLillo’s Falling Man: Terry Cheng, Rumsey, Florence Givens, Martin Ridnour/Ernst Hechinger, or David Janiak.

You may consult your copy of the novel when writing the essay, and you may bring in a typed outline [one page, double spaced, 12 point font. 1 inch margins] that includes your thesis paragraph and a list of details or examples that you intend to use to support your thesis and topics.