Spring 2011 World Lit Final Exam Study Guide

World Literature

Final Exam

Study Guide

Spring 2011

The Setup:

70 multiple choice questions

30 point essay

2 Critical Reading Passages

Questions on the works below

Kite Runner

Be able to identify:

-Amir -Ali -Baba -Assef -Sohrab -Hassan -Soraya -Rahim Khan

Be familiar with

- How is Baba a generous person?

-How does Amir redeem himself?

-Why does Baba challenge the Russian Soldier?

- Why does Hassan return to Kabul with Rahim Khan?

-How are Hassan and Sohrab alike?

-How does Amir feel about Soraya's past relationship?  Why?

-What are the results of the Taliban invasion of Afghanistan?

Things Fall Apart

Be able to identify:

-Okonkwo -Nwoye -Obierika -Enzinma

Othello

Be able to identify: -Emilia -Cassio -Iago -Rodrigo -Brabantio -Bianca -Montano -Gratiano

Vocabulary

Obstinacy, trepidation, withered, permeate, presumptuous, relic, hemorrhage, eccentric                                                                 

Random Grammar Questions

Essay Question Choices (Choose 1):

Choice 1)

Khaled Hosseini vividly describes Afghanistan, both the privileged world of Amir's childhood and the stricken country under the Taliban. How did his descriptions differ from ideas that you may already have had about Afghanistan? What cultural differences become evident in the American passages of the novel? How easy do the Afghans find it to settle in the U.S.?  Compare the social structures of Amir's life in Afghanistan vs. those encounters in America.

Choice 2)

It is Amir's dearest wish to please his father. What fuels this wish? To what extent does he succeed in doing so and at what cost? What kind of man is Baba? How would you describe his relationship with Amir and with Hassan? How does that relationship change, and what prompts those changes?

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