 American
Lit II Midterm Review
Associate
Adjunct Professor Becky Villarreal
The midterm exam
will be a multiple choice/true false, closed book test to be
taken via Blackboard in one of the ACC testing centers.
Bring your ACC picture ID
as well as the section and synonym numbers of the course. Be
sure to study the assigned readings from your textbook and
online (see Schedule). Then, review Quizzes 1-2 because some
of the questions will be on this exam.
This exam assesses
your knowledge of grammar, punctuation, MLA, the readings,
and online lectures. The midterm is worth a maximum of 100
points or 20 percent of your grade. Please give your
instructor at least 72 hours to grade the two short essays.
You can then check your final grade by accessing your
gradesheet and clicking the numerical score.
If the midterm is
submitted more than two weeks late, you risk the chance of
not receiving credit.
Be sure to
devote extra study time to the following:
African American Folktales
(focus on Animal Tales and John and Old
Marster)
Louisa
May Alcott (1832-1888)
: "My
Contraband" or "The
Brothers"
Mark
Twain (1835-1910)
:"Jim
Smiley and his Jumping Frog"
Joel
Chandler Harris
(1848-1908) from Uncle
Remus (chapters 2
and 4) and from Free
Joe ("Free
Joe and the Rest of the World")
Corridos (focus on "Jacinto
Trevino" and "Gregorio Cortez")
Kate
Chopin (1851-1904) :
The
Awakening
Sarah
Orne Jewett (1849-1909)
: "A
White Heron"
O.
Henry (1862-1910):
"Gift
of the Magi"
Gertrude
Bonnin (1876-1938) :
from School
Days;
"Why
I am Pagan"
Booker
T. Washington (1856-1915)
: Up
from Slavery;
Click
for video lecture
Robert
Frost (1874-1963) :
"Mending
Wall" (YouTube);
"Out,
Out";
"The
Ax-Helve";
"Stopping
by Woods";
"Design";
"Provide,
Provide";
"Directive";
"Road
Not Taken"
Edna
St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)
: "The
Spring and the Fall";
"Love
is not all" (YouTube);
Sonnets xli
and xcv; "Justice
Denied in Massachusetts";
"Recuerdo"
(YouTube)
Katherine
Anne Porter (1890-1980) :
"Flowering Judas"
Marianne
Moore (1887-1972):
"Poetry"
(YouTube); "What
Are Years?"
Thomas
Whitecloud (1914-1972)
:"Blue Winds Dancing"
William
Carlos Williams (1883-1963)
: "The
Young Housewife"
(YouTube); "Portrait
of a Lady";
"Spring
and All" (YouTube);
"The
Poor";
"The
Great Figure"
T.
S. Eliot (1888-1965):
"The
Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
(YouTube);
"The
Waste Land"
Ernest
Hemingway (1899-1932) :
"Hills
Like White Elephants"
What Can You
Expect to See on the Exam?
- 25 multiple
choice and true false questions worth a total of 50
points (Two questions over Late 19th and Turn of the
Century; Four questions over Early Moderns and Lost
Generation; Five questions over mechanics and MLA; 14
questions over terminology).
- Two short
essays (100+ word paragraphs) worth 25 pts. each (one
question will be over Chopin's novel; the other over one
of the other readings). Points will be taken off for
mechanics and style. Use examples from the works to
support your ideas.
Created by
Becky Villarreal Austin Community College
2008
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