World Literature
Final Exam
Study Guide
Spring 2011
The Setup:
70 multiple choice questions
30 point essay
2 Critical
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
-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
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
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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