Dr. Perdigao
HUM 2213: British and American Literature II
Spring 2013
Final Exam Review
Final Exam: Tuesday, April 30, 1-3 pm
Parts I-II.
In these sections, you will fill in the blanks and identify concepts and names in short
responses. The list is derived from the material covered in the readings and in the
powerpoints and will include names, titles, key concepts, and literary terms. A
comprehensive list is included below:
Sylvia Plath
“Lady Lazarus”
“Tulips”
“Out of the ash / I rise with my red hair”
“Dying / is an art”
Michael Cunningham
The Hours
1998
1923
1949
1941
Virginia Woolf
Laura Brown
Clarissa Vaughn
Richie/Richard
Leonard Woolf
Louis
Dan Brown
Sally
Julia
Librarian
Book editor
San Francisco
New York
Los Angeles
Sussex
London
Kitchen
Kitty
Cake
The Normandy Hotel
Room 19
Meryl Streep, Susan Sarandon, and Vanessa Redgrave
Angelica, Julian, and Quentin
Bird
“Everything’s ready”
Adrienne Rich
“Diving into the Wreck”
Book of myths
Camera
Flippers
Knife
Mask
“The thing itself”
Damage and treasures
Joseph O’Neill
Netherland
2008
Hans van den Broek
Rachel
Jake
Equities analyst
“Double Dutch”
Lawyer
Chef
Holland
London
New York City
Tribeca
9/11
The Chelsea
Google Earth
London Eye
Chuck Ramkissoon
Trinidad
CRICKET
Driver’s license
Kosher sushi
Russian bath house
Anne
Eliza
Bald Eagle Field
Thanksgiving
Dutch Nursery Rhymes in Colonial Times
More CRICKET
Mehmet Taspinar
Angel
Mike Abelsky
Weh weh
Cardozo
The Great Gatsby
Nick Carraway
Jay Gatsby
Daisy
Julian Barnes
The Sense of an Ending
2011
Tony Webster
Adrian Finn
Veronica Ford
Sarah Ford
Brother Jack
Colin
Alex
The United States
Margaret
Susie
Annie
Letter
500 pounds
Diary
“There is great unrest”
Watch
Postcard of Clifton Suspension Bridge
Severn Bore
Eros and Thanatos
Pub
Kazuo Ishiguro
Never Let Me Go
1990s
Thirty-one
Carers
Donors
Completing
Deferral
Souls
Morningdale
Scotland
Frankenstein
Kathy H.
Tommy
Ruth
Miss Lucy
Miss Emily
Miss Geraldine
Hailsham
Victorian novels
The Cottages
Judy Bridgewater
Chrissie and Rodney
Possibles
Laura
Madame
Marie-Claude
The gallery
Sales
Norfolk
“The Lost Corner”
Boat
Fence
Dover
Kingsfield
Part III.
In this section, you will need to be able to identify the works and the writers of the
passages provided in the exam. Your task is then to perform close readings of those
passages, to discuss what is most significant about those passages, how they reflect
the larger issues. Explore how passages reflect the themes of the work as well as the
texts’ historical contexts—how the texts represent ideas about identity, nationhood,
and the historical moment. You might consider the specific themes that are shared
between the works: for example, time, memory, the past, present, and future,
conceptions of race, class, gender, and sexual orientation.
Sylvia Plath’s “Tulips”
Michael Cunningham’s The Hours
Adrienne Rich’s “Diving into the Wreck”
Joseph O’Neill’s Netherland
Julian Barnes’ The Sense of an Ending
Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go