Week Ten Exam
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Submission
- To be submitted electronically (via Blackboard or email)
- By midnight, Friday, 2 November 2012
Material Covered
All chapters of The Brothers Karamazov up to and including Book Five (page 282)
Form
The take-home exam should be submitted as an Word document. The document should be three pages long.
Prompt
Literature and Society
This course assumes a basic understanding of the events and material of social and political history on the part of the student. For this exam you are to identify and annotate two sources that help you understand the novel The Brothers Karamazov better. Page one of the exam will consist of two annotations. Pages two and three of the three-page exam will consist of your analysis of how these sources illuminate your understanding of the text.
To complete this exam, first, identify scenes, dialog, behaviors and beliefs in the novel that you do not understand. Then, go to the library looking for different sources that help you understand these scenes dialog, behaviors, and beliefs better.
Identify and annotate two sources that present the social and political context for the novel The Brothers Karamazov. These sources should not be listed in the class bibliography. These sources may be from the library or an online journal. To annotate the sources, follow the guidelines suggested by Purdue's OnlineWriting Lab. These two annotation should take up no more than one page.
After annotating the source, point to four specific instances in the novel that gain greater meaning after reading the source. Pages two and three of your exam will consist in answering the following questions in a concise manner.
- How does a line or several lines of dialog make more sense because of the source
- How does a scene in the novel make more sense because of the information in the source.
- How does a specific behavior of a character make more sense because of the information in the source.
- How does a specific belief of a character make more sense because of information presented in one of the sources.
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