For the examination, please bring bluebooks, pencils and/or pens.
The final examination is an open book exam and will consist of two sections.
Note: The exam counts for 25% of your course grade.
Part I (10
points): Approximately 30-45 minutes
The first
part of the exam will ask you to write a brief essay (3-4 single-spaced
handwritten pages) in response to the topic focusing on Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles. You will be asked to compare Hardy’s
novel to at least one other novel we have studied this quarter.
Part II (20
points): Approximately 60-75 minutes
The second
part of the exam will ask you to write an essay (5 or more single-spaced
handwritten pages) in response to a topic. You will have a choice of the
following two topics:
·
a comparison of
narrators in Eliot’s Middlemarch,
Dickens’ Great Expectations
and two other novels studied this quarter
·
a discussion of the
representation of ambition, and the effect of class or gender on it, in
any four novels studied this quarter