FIRST: REVIEW WHAT IS MEANT BY "ANALYSIS"
Review the passage from Things Fall Apart, on the war medicine of Umuofia ("Umuofia was feared...hopping about"). Go through it carefully. Recall how each sentence of this apparently strange paragraph in fact does relate to important themes and characters in the novel.
DO NOT WRITE ANYTHING ABOUT THIS PASSAGE -- I want you to do this simply in order to review what is meant by "analysis."
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The Questions: ANSWER ANY 4 (FOUR) OUT OF THE 5 (FIVE) QUESTIONS. So, you have some choice!
Email your Final Exam to me in text format only, single-spaced, blank line between paragraphs. NO ATTACHMENTS. Just like the biweekly HW assignments.
Send me all four answers in ONE email message. Number your answers with the same number as the question (1, 2, 3, etc.)
Leave two blank lines between answers. Leave one blank line between paragraphs. Number Your Answers.
Make sure your subject line looks like this:
Subj: Yourlastname WL Final Exam
Construct your arguments with logic and clear writing.
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How To Write A Good Exam:
Do not use direct quotations. Do not summarize the plots of the novels, or parts of them.
Do not rewrite the exam question at the beginning of your answer.
Spend ½ of your time thinking, planning, and writing an outline of, your answers.
For example, if you have 4 questions and, therefore, 30 minutes per question, spend 15 minutes or a bit more thinking, planning, and outlining your answer on a separate scrap piece of paper. If you finish your outline before the 15 minutes are up, relax for a few minutes.
Spend no more than ½ your time actually writing.
Those who write furiously for the full time without careful planning in advance will do poorly. Long, poorly-planned essays will not get good grades. Shorter, well-planned, well-thought-out essays will do much better. 15 minutes is plenty of time to write out a full answer, PROVIDED YOU HAVE STUDIED HARD AND KNOW THE MATERIAL VERY WELL.
Proofread your answers. Construct your arguments with logic and clear writing.
PROOFREAD YOUR ANSWERS for spelling and grammar very carefully. Use a grammar/spelling checker such as every modern Word Processing program has.
If you do the above, you will not need what I am about to wish you -- that is,
Good luck!
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You may begin writing the exam when you receive it.
The header on your emailed exam must be dated no later than 2 hours after the scheduled beginning of this exam - in your case, by 5:15 p.m.
Good luck!
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EXAM QUESTIONS BEGIN HERE!
1. Discuss the role of ideology in TWO of the following books: Babouk; Things Fall Apart;; One Day of Life.
. Make sure you ANALYZE three passages from each of the two books. Obviously, the passages have to deal, in general, with some aspect of the issue of ideology.
Make sure you answer this question with an analysis of the passages you've chosen. Examine the passages sentence by sentence, where appropriate. Where appropriate, relate phrases, sentences, or paragraphs specifically to other parts of the same novel.
Do not summarize at all. Do not "tell what's going on", or "who the characters are." You are to write an analysis.
Do not copy the passages I want your answer to be YOUR writing.
2. "Any critical examination of exploitation is at the same time a critique of capitalism, for capitalist relations of exploitation are central to capitalism"
Discuss this quotation with reference to One Day of Life and any two of the following: Babouk, God's Bits of Wood, Masters of the Dew. Examine how the authors portray relations of exploitation. Be specific.
3. Discuss the idea of "SCHOOLING" AS INDOCTRINATION in two of the following: Things Fall Apart, God's Bits of Wood, One Day of Life.
4. Discuss the relationship between anti-communism and exploitation in One Day of Life, Masters of the Dew, and any one other book from this semester.
5. Religion is shown as having important political implications in the works read in this course.
Discuss the role of religion in three of the works we read in this class. One of those works MUST be Roumain, Masters of the Dew.
Be sure to consider:
* whose interest the religious ideas serve;
* whose interest they harm;
* who promotes the religion.