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Additional Exam Notes/Hints

Jan.23rd Additional Exam Notes/Hints

Please note that the worksheets from Monday and Tuesday will be available for students to complete only if they wish to for bonus marks. This includes questions that were going to be bonus only questions anyway on the film Simone which we did not get to finish due to the snow day. There will be no questions pertaining to Simone. Also, because we unfortunately did not get to cover the story “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” there will be no mandatory questions on the exam about that story even though it is listed on the review sheet from last week. However, the story is available for you to refer to if you wish to summarize it and/or for one of the questions where you have the option of referring to course content. You can also find it on line if you wish to read ahead of the exam. Or you may take a copy of the story with you for your own reading enjoyment. Below are additional sample short answer questions and two bonus questions that will be on the exam:

  1. In the song/poem “I Hope You Dance” by Lee Ann Womack, what was “dance” a metaphor for?
  2. In your own words, what is “resilience poetry” and give an example of a poem or song.
  3. Define science fiction and give an example
  4. The song “Wheat Kings” is about who or what?
  5. What is your interpretation of three of the following songs or poems: “New Orleans is Sinking”, The Sound of Silence”, “Now or Never Land”, “The Carol County Accident”, “Cryin’”, “Always”, “The Look Ahead”, “Old Note”, “Two Roads”, “Mighty Casey”, “The Cremation of Sam McGee”
  6. In The Great Debaters, who said “You must be the smartest man in Texas” and who was s/he referring to?
  7. The Fargo robot (Minsky) said what sentence repeatedly? (1)
  8. Summarize one of the following short stories: Gore, Lamb to the Slaughter, The Execution, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, The Interlopers, The Taste of Melon (5)
  9. In The 5 People You Meet In Heaven, a) Who are the 5 people Eddie meets in Heaven and what are the 5 lessons he learns? (10) b) Who is Eddie waiting in a line of 5 people to meet at the end of the book? (1)
  10. In Dead Poets Society, how does Prof Keating teach his students about poetry and the concept of “carpe diem”? (3)

BONUS:

  1. What’s the last thing Prof. Keating says to his class at the end of Dead Poets Society?
  2. What law does Tolsen break in The Great Debaters?