Sample Exam questions for 1131

Here are a couple of sample exam questions. You are asked to write an answer that is 2-3 paragraphs long (say a page, in an exam booklet).

There will be questions on each of the texts we studied, and you will be asked to answer 8 of them.

1. Is race important in “Everyday Use”? Why/Why not?
2. What is the effect of the shifting points of view in “Mrs Turner Cutting the Grass?
3. How does the fragmentary and interwoven structure of Everything is Illuminated affect your experience as a reader?
4. Pick a theme from The Great Gatsby; give 3 examples of how this theme is represented in the novel.
5. Give 2 examples of the use of irony in Weldon’s story “Ind Aff…” How does this irony affect your experience as a reader?