ENGL 2333.001
Summer I 2008
Prof. Murphy
Final Examination July 3th @ 2:00 P.M.-3:55 P.M. ST 108
Part I Short Answers (2 pts apiece total of 20 pts)
Ten of the Fifteen will be on the examination
Either define term or answer the following question in FULL.
3) Define Memoir
4) According to Yeats what “is loosed upon the world” and moreover, what is Yeats referring to?
5) What does the following account describe and who is the Author and the title of the poem.
These are the women of Flanders:
They await the lost
They await the lost that shall never leave the dock;
They await the lost that shall never again come by the train
To the embraces of all these women with dead faces;
6) Write a brief summary on Charles Baudelaire “Beauty,” then discuss why the poem is part of the Symbolist movement?
7) What inspired Jean Toomer’s novel Cane and what three literary genres and sub-genres did it contain?
8) Name the three influential Jazz songs by Dizzy Gillespie.
9) Name the four major plays by Anton Chekhov.
10) Who and what is "The Wallflower Order" and which writer invented the order?
11) Who devised the symphonic poem?
12) Arthur Rimbaud wrote which book during his relationship with what other writer?
13) In Louise Erdrich’s “Dear John Wayne” what does she mean by the lines:
Come on, boys, we got them where we want them, drunk,
running.
They’ll give us what we want, what we need.
Even his disease was the idea of taking everything.
Those cells, burning, doubling, splitting out of their skins.
14) Name three of Thelonious Monk’s more famous jazz songs.
15) What instrument in which band did Bret Easton Ellis play in?
Part II Essay (30 pts)
Write a FULL essay on ONE of the three questions. If a text or ideas are mentioned then you need to discuss it in conjunction with the other texts. Be sure to use specific examples.
1) The soul, according to Rene Descartes, resides in the mind, while Linda Hogan claims, “for the Native mind…the soul resides in the world around us; it shares itself with us” (63). How does Descartes and Hogan’s claims compare with Achebe’s in Things Fall Apart? Using textual examples, demonstrate that Umuofia follows Descartes', Hogan' or its own path.
2) In Things Fall Apart and The Woman Who Watches Over The World animals represent culture and pervades the narratives; how do these representations of animals effect the cultural perception. Discuss this perception, its importance through these narratives and to their cultures.
3) In Yates’ poem “The Second Coming” the third line “Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;” is a fundamental aspect of Things Fall Apart and The Woman Who Watches Over The World. Discuss what exactly falls apart in these narratives and the different effect that action has on the narrator/protagonist for each text and finally, which apartness is the most destructive culturally and why?
4) The body is discussed, attacked, and desecrated in Things Fall Apart and The Woman Who Watches Over The World. Using Descartes & Cohen’s notions of the body, discuss the importance of these actions within each text with the significance towards the cultures they represent.
5) In Things Fall Apart and The Woman Who Watches Over The World spirituality deeply connected these people with the landscape. Compare and contrast the connections of people, spirituality and landscape in these texts.