You will need to bring at least one large blue/green book with you to the exam.
Part I. You will be asked to briefly identify five out of ten characters, places, and/or objects of importance in the works read so far this semester. It also possible that you’ll find some memorable couplets from the poems we’ve read this semester. A complete answer (of four or so sentences) completely identifies the subject and connects that subject to the work where it appears and/or to other works read this semester. (4 points each; 20 points)
Part II: You will be asked to identify five out of ten short passages by author name and title. You must spell the author’s name and title correctly to receive full credit. (4 points each; 20 points)
Part III: You will be asked to write short essays (of at least two but no more than three paragraphs) on two of the passages identified in Part II. (30 points each)
While I expect you to have a good sense of everything we’ve read this semester, and knowledge of the full syllabus will help you on Part 1 of the exam, I will be drawing the ID passages from the following works:
Essays and Excerpts:
From The Spectator, #1 “Introduction to Mr. Spectator”
From Eliza Haywood, “The Female Spectator”
From Samuel Johnson, from The Rambler, [On Fiction] (1750)
From Vicesimus Knox, “On Novel Reading” (1778)
Alexander Pope, Essay on Man
Samuel Johnson, Vanity of Human Wishes
Lady Sarah Pennington, from An Unfortunate Mother’s Advice to Her Absent Daughters; In a Letter to Miss Pennington (1761)
Hester Chapone, Letters on the Improvement of Mind (1773)
From Clara Reeve, The Progress of Romance (1785), from “Introductory Comments”
Complete Works:
Frances Burney, Evelina (1778)
Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto (1764)
Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village (1779)