Study Guide for Revenge and Justice Unit Test (Wednesday, Feb 15)
Part I: Background Chart (14 points)
 For each story, you need to be able to identify the author, country, time and genre.
 This section will be matching (the authors, countries, times and genres will be listed).
 The country and time refer to the author’s country and time period—not the setting of the story.
 For the dates, you need to know the century, not the specific date.
Title
Author
Genre
Place
Time
Where you can find it:
Nassar
Short
21st
Online
“The Shoes”
Palestine
Ibrahim
story
century
(link on website)
Reading the World
Short
20th
“Black Sheep”
Italo Calvino
Cuba/Italy
story
century
red: 193; green: 203
World Masterpieces
Short
Algeria/
20th
“The Guest”
Albert Camus
Story
France
century
p. 1232-1246
Reading the World
Short
Czechoslo
20th
“The Last Judgment”
Karel Capek
story
vakia
Century
red 205; green: 217
th
Reading the World
Short
China/
20
“The Saboteur”
Ha Jin
story
USA
century
Red: 495; green: 538
The Inferno
World Masterpieces
Dante
Epic
Florence,
14th
excerpts
Alighieri
poem
Italy
century
p. 665-671, 683-690
“Hanging in Chad”
Radio
21st
Listen in class
Ira Glass
USA
This American Life
feature
century
(link on website)
Part II: Characters (16 points)
 You will match quotes or descriptions to the correct character.
 Nizar
 Mr. Chiu
 The honest man
 Fenjin
 Daru
 Adamou
 The Arab
 The baiters
 Balducci
 Ferdinand Kugler
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God
Dante
Laura Blumenfeld
Omar
Part III: Multiple Choice (50 points)
 There will be questions from each story in the chart, plus the Laura Blumenfeld interview and the
Dr. Pamela Gerloff article (see website for links to articles).
 Review notes from class discussions, homework, handouts, plots and characters.
 Think about the themes of revenge and justice, and how they are shown in each story.
Part IV: Quotation Identification (20 points)
 For each quotation, you will have to identify which story it came from. There will not be any
quotes from “Hanging in Chad.”
 Review plots and characters of stories.