The final exam will take place on Wednesday, April 21, from 7pm (Pacific Time). You will have 24 hours to complete it (you will email it to me by 7pm Pacific Time the following day), but it is designed to take you no more than two and a half hours.
The exam is now available here.
The exam has three parts. Each part is worth the same amount: 33.3% of the total mark.
I. The first part takes exactly the same format as you have seen in the midterm exams, and it will be about Lorca’s La casa de Bernarda Alba. If you need reminding about the format of the midterms, they are available on the course website. But in short, there will be an extract from the play, followed by, first, three short questions (which you should expect to answer with a few sentences each) and, second, a longer question (for which you should expect to write a couple of paragraphs) about the extract and its relationship to the larger work from which it is taken.
Again, the extract chosen for this first part will come from La casa de Bernarda Alba.
II. The second part asks you to provide definitions for three concepts that we have discussed over the semester. You should write more or less a page for each definition (depending on the size of your handwriting, whether you are double-spacing etc.). In each case, you should refer to examples from the texts we have read where this is relevant and/or helpful.
You can find the list of concepts here.
III. The third part is an essay question. You should write more or less 2-3 pages (depending on the size of your font, whether you are double-spacing etc.). You should also include concrete and detailed analysis of at least two of the texts we have read. Moreover, these texts should be of different genres: e.g., a poem and a short story; or a short story and a play.
You can find the essay questions here.
In short, you will have:
Part I: Questions about an extract from Lorca’s La casa de Bernarda Alba [33.3%]
Part II: Three short-answer definitions of key concepts [33.3%]
Part III: A short essay chosen from one of two possible prompts [33.3%]
As they are each worth the same percentage, you should probably spend about the same amount of time (and write roughly the same amount of words) on each part of the exam.
Good luck!
