(NB: The names and places [i. e., titles, characters, quotes, and all other specific content listed below] have been changed to protect the "integrity" of the real exam!)

Part One: For each of the following passages, identify the writer or speaker and the title of the work. Then, briefly explain each quote's significance. (You can expect at least one quote from each of the novels we've read.)

Examples:

1. "Memory lived not in initial possession but in the freed hands, pardoned and freed, and in the heart that can empty but fill again, in the patterns restored by dreams."

2. "How plotless real life was! In novels, events led up to something. In his mother's diaries, they flitted past with no apparent direction."

Part Two: Match the concept/term with the appropriate writer/work.

A sampling:

a. a breadboard	__In the Heart-of the Country
b. "Black love is Black wealth"	__Anne Tyler's DHSR
c. roomscape	__The Optimist's Daughter
d. biomythography	__Nikki Giovanni

Part Three: Term Identification: Be sure to use examples to support generalizations.

1. Local Colorists	5. blank verse
2. Wayne Booth's Rhetoric of Fiction	6. the dynamo and the virgin
3. "the new woman"	7. naturalism
4. the "nouveau riche"	8. Howells' "grasshopper" theory

Part Four: Essay section. This section may include questions that focus on one particular novel, on notions of form and structure, on literary movements and practices, on any of the student presentations, on lecture notes, or videos, . . .