ENGL 1102 Final Exam Review
Author/Director
1. Shakespeare
2. Gilliam
3. Le Guin
4. Tolstoy
5. Kafka
6. Chopin
7. Joyce
Title
Hamlet
Monty Python and The Holy Grail
The Ones who Walk Away from Omelas
The Death of Ivan Ilych
Metamorphoses
The Storm; The Story of an Hour
Araby
Hamlet
What you should know: the names of all of the main characters and how they are related to each other;
how each character dies and who kills him or her; what hamartia means and what Hamlet’s fatal flaw was
or what event in the play was his fatal mistake; how King Hamlet died and who killed him; why Hamlet is
angry/depressed; the name of the play “wherein [Hamlet] will catch the conscience of the King”; what
Hamlet contemplates in the “to be or not to be” soliloquy; who Pyrrhus is
Monty Python and The Holy Grail
What you should know: the names of all of knights; their quest; what a “grail” is and why the knights
want it; how the movie ends
“The Ones who Walk Away from Omelas “
What you should know: the definition of dystopia; the flaw in Omelas and its purpose; why some people
leave Omelas
The Death of Ivan Ilych
What you should know: how Ivan dies; who Gerasim is and his significance in the story; what allows Ivan
to die in peace; what was preventing Ivan from dying in peace
Metamorphoses
What you should know: the names of all of the main characters and how they are related to each other; the
transformations of both Grete and Gregor; in what way Gregor’s transformation is indicative of his life
before the transformation; Gregor’s occupation
“The Storm”
What you should know: the names of all of the main characters and how they are related to each other;
what Calixta experiences for the first time in her life; what the storm symbolizes
“The Story of an Hour”
What you should know: the names of all of the main characters and how they are related to each other;
how and why Mrs. Mallard dies; how and why Mrs. Mallard reacted to the news of her husband’s death
“Araby”
What you should know: where the story takes place; what “Araby” is; how the boy views the world at the
beginning of the story; why he leaves Araby without buying anything