There are three parts to the exam.  Be sure and weigh your time and effort accordingly.  I do not require the exams to be typed, but I prefer that they be.  The novels covered by this exam are Robinson Crusoe, Castle Rackrent, Rob Roy, and Hard Times.

Part I.  Identify five of the following, giving author, title, and speaker (if appropriate), and explain their significance (to character development, plot, setting, theme, etc.).  If you answer more than five I will only answer the first five. (10 points each)

a.)  “Sir, I canna, wi’ my little learning an’ my common way, tell the genelman what will better aw this . . . but I can tell him what I know will never do ‘t. The strong hand will never do 't. Vict’ry and triumph will never do ‘t. Agreeing fur to mak’ one side, unnat’rally awlus and forever right, and toother side unnat’rally awlus and forever wrong will never, never do ‘t. Nor yet lettin’ alone will never do 't. . . . Most o’ aw, rating ‘em as so much Power, and reg’latin’ ‘em as if they was figures in a soom or machines: wi’out loves and likes, wi’out memories and inclinations, wi’out souls to weary and souls to hope—when aw goes quiet, draggin’ on wi’ em as if they’d nowt o’ th’ kind, and when aw goes onquiet, reproachin’ ‘em for their want o’ sitch humanly feelin’s in their dealin’s wi’ you—this will never do’t, sir, till God’s work is onmade.”

b.)  In a word, the nature and experience of things dictated to me upon just reflection that all the good things of this world are no farther good to us than they are for our use; and that whatever we may heap up indeed to give others, we enjoy just as much as we can use, and no more.

b.) Jason Quirk, though he be my son, I must say was a good scholar from his birth, and a very ’cute lad:  I thought to make him a priest, but he did better for himself; seeing how he was as good a clerk as any in the county, the agent gave him his rent accounts to copy, which he did first of all for the pleasure of obliging the gentleman, and would take nothing at all for this trouble, but was always proud to serve the family.  By and by a good farm bounding us to the east fell into his honour’s hands, and my son put in a proposal for it:  why shouldn’t he, as well as another?

d.)  “You must think hardly of us, Mr. Osbaldistone, and it is not natural that it should be otherwise.  But remember, at least, we have not been unprovoked  we are a rude and an ignorant, and it may be a violent and passionate, but we are not a cruel people  the land might be at peace and in law for us, did they allow us to enjoy the blessings of peaceful law.  But we have been a persecuted generation.”
     “And persecution,” said the Bailie, “maketh wise men mad.”

e.)  “You are to be in all things regulated and governed” said the gentleman, “by fact. . . . You must discard the word Fancy altogether.  You have nothing to do with it.  You are not to have any object of use or ornament, that would be a contradiction in fact.”

f.)  “ . . . and it is no uncommon thing to hear a Scotchman, when overwhelmed by a country man with a tone of bitter and fluent upbraiding, reply by way of taunt to his adversary, ‘You have gotten to your English.’”

g.) I made him know his name should be Friday, which was the day I saved his life; I called him so for the memory of the time; I likewise taught him to say Master, and then let him know that was to be my name.

Part II.  Answer one of the essay questions below using specific examples.  Be sure to write an organized essay (thesis, argument, conclusion).  Your finished essay should be approximately 600-750 words.  (20 points)

A.  In every narrative there is a narrator.  Discuss the function of the narrator in one of the novels read thus far.

B.  Discuss the importance of setting in one of the novels read thus far.

C. One of the themes which as recurred in the novels read thus far is the need for individuals to take responsibility for their actions.  Discuss the presentation of this theme in one of the novels read thus far.

Part III.  Answer the essay questions below, comparing and contrasting, using specific examples.  Be sure to write an organized essay (thesis, argument, conclusion).  A good answer will not deal each novel separately, but will move back and forth as different points of discussion are raised (a point by point comparison rather than item by item).   Your finished essay should be approximately 750-900 words. (30 pts)

The theme for the course this semester is that of “identity.”  Sometimes this term refers to the individual, sometimes to race, ethnicity, gender, or class.  Create a common definition and discuss the issue of identity in three of the novels read thus far.