Final Review

General Study Guide:
1. Read and know the first and last lines of each story.
2. Recognize time and location of each story.
3. Know the main characters, and general plot.
4. Be aware of point of view, etc.
5. Recognize styles of writing (Hemingway vs. Cisneros, etc.)

The Final: Part 1 - 10% Course Grade, Part 2 -10% Course Grade, Part 3 - 15% Course Grade

Guide to Short Answer - Alternate Final (Part 1 - No Books):
This section will include literary terms (only the underlined ones from Barry’s Handout) and very short selections from our stories. In one sentence identify the term’s meaning or the story of origin for the selection and it’s importance. Write what you know. 20 questions.

Guide to True/False and Objective Questions - Regular Final (Part 1 - No Books):
This section will include literary terms (only the underlined ones from Barry’s Handout) and very short selections from our stories. Read each of the true/false question carefully, noting particular adjectives and other meaning changing words (not, if, but, etc..). Read each choice carefully for the objective questions, and chose the one which fits best. 20 questions, 10 each.

Guide to Short Response (Part 2 - Books and Notes):
This section will be composed of a number of short quotations from the stories. You will be expected to write a one paragraph essay which discusses the importance of the quotation in its particular story. The story titles will be given.The first question will be a mandatory section question. Respond to the quotation marked with a W for Wednesday. You will then be able to choose 4 from the remaining 7 selections. Read over all the selections for those you know well, don’t waste time on the others. Pay attention to stylistic as well as thematic concerns. This is a chance for partial credit, so write what you know. 5 paragraphs.

Guide to Writing an Essay in Your Exam (Part 3 - Books and Notes):
You will be given several selections of three stories from which to choose. These will include a section-specific selection marked with a W for Wednesday. Write a full essay that compares or contrasts your three stories with regard to technique, style, emotional.intellectual effect or theme. Have a thesis. Use quotations. Possible themes for writing (not all possible certainly) include romance/realism, epiphany, change, movement from childhood to adulthood, point of view, language, relationships, etc. 1 essay.

The Stories

H = Handout, R = Reader, S = Short Shorts, Y = You’ve Got to Read This, B = Best of 1998

“Believing in People” by Kirk Nesset (H)-

“The Snow Collectors” by Tatyana Tolstaya (H)-

“Hair Jewellery” by Magaret Atwood (H)

“Araby” by James Joyce (R)

“Eveline” by James Joyce (S69)

“The Dead” by James Joyce (Y283)

“After the Theatre” by Anton Chekhov (S29)

“Gooseberries” by Anton Chekhov (Y178)

“Cathedral” by Raymond Carver (Y138)

“The Three Hermits” by Leo Tolstoy (S3)

“Alyosha the Pot” (S11)

“The Wolf” by Giovanni Verga (S33)

“The Third Bank of the River” by Joao Guimaraes Rosa (S49)

“The Bathhouse” by Mikhail Zoschenko (S129)

Woman Hollering Creek by Sandra Cisneros

“My Lucy Friend Who Smells Like Corn”

“Eleven”

“Salvador Late or Early”

“Mexican Movies”

“Barbie-Q”

“Mericans”

“Tepeyac”

“One Holy Night”

“My Tocaya”

“Woman Hollering Creek”

“The Marlboro Man”

“La Fabulosa: A Texas Operetta”

“Remember the Alamo”

“Never Marry A Mexican”

“Bread”

“Eyes of Zapata”

“Anguiano Religious ...”

“Little Miracles, Kept Promises”

“Los Boxers”

“The Was A Man, There Was A Woman”

“Tin Tan Tan”

“Bien Pretty”

“Boys and Girls” by Sandra Cisneros (R)

“My Name” by Sandra Cisneros (R)

“The Family of Little Feet” by Sandra Cisneros (R)

“Geraldo, No Last Name”by Sandra Cisneros (R)

“Bums in the Attic” by Sandra Cisneros (R)

“Labor Day Dinner” by Alice Munro (Y381)

“Petrified Man” by Eudora Welty (R)

“No Place for You, My Love” by Eudora Welty (Y588)

“The Catbird Seat” by James Thurber (R)

“In the Penal Colony” by Franz Kafka (Y322)

“First Sorrow” by Franz Kafka (S95)

“A Good Man Is Hard To Find” By Flannery O’Connor (Y443)

“The Dead Man” by Jorge Luis Borges (S152)

“The Aleph” by Jorge Luis Borges (Y63)

“Swaddling Clothes” by Yukio Mishima (S137)

“Homage for Isaac Babel” by Doris Lessing (S148)

“The Death of Dolgushov” by Isaac Babel (S125)

“Guy de Maupassant” by Isaac Babel (Y22)

“Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been” by Joyce Carol Oates (R)

The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway

“The Snows of Kilimanjaro”

“A Clean, Well-Lighted Place”

“A Day’s Wait”

“The Gambler, The Nun, and the Radio”

“Fathers and Sons”

“In Another Country”

“The Killers”

“A Way You’ll Never Be”

“The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber”

“Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway (H)

“The Rabbit” by Djuna Barnes (R)

“A Night Among the Horses”by Djuna Barnes (R)

“The Doctors” by Djuna Barnes (R)

“A Sick Collier” by D. H. Lawrence (S75)

“Wants” by Grace Paley (Y469)

“An Episode of War” by Stephen Crane (S39)

“Sonny’s Blues” by James Baldwin (Y32)

“The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien (Y424)

“The Blue Bouquet” by Octavio Paz (S163)

“The Daughters of the Late Colonel” by Katherine Mansfield (Y363)

“Life of Ma Parker” by Katherine Mansfield (R)-

“Cat and Mouse” by Witi Ihimaera (R)

“My Father on the Verge of Disgrace” by John Updike (B158)

“Flower Children” by Maxine Swann (B97)

“The Half-Skinned Steer” by Annie Proulx (B110)

“Tea at the House” by Meg Wolitzer (B218)

“Appetites” by Kathryn Chetkovich (B1)

“Body Language” by Diane Schoemperlen (B26)

“Elvis Has Left the Building” by Carol Anshaw (B70)

“People Like That Are the Only People Here” by Lorrie Moore (B188)

“Every Night for a Thousand Years” by Chris Adrian (B83)

“Glory Goes and Gets Some” by Emily Carter (B107)

“Mr. Sweetly Indecent” by Bliss Broyard (B144)

“Welding with Children” by Tim Gautreaux (B254)

“The Soft Touch of Grass” by Luigi Pirandello (S83)

“Paper Pills” by Sherwood Anderson (S106)

“Use of Force” by William Carlos Williams (S132)

“The Blue Devils of Blue River Avenue” by Poe Ballantine (B12)

“Goodbye, My Brother” by John Cheever (Y157)