CVSP 111 Final, Fall 2008

Feb.2009 Prof.M.Amyuni CVSP 111 Final Exam Your exam is in two parts. Part I. (75%) Examine the following passages from the novels we have read then choose 5 out of the 7 passages you find below: 1) The only thing she knew, and others were going to know, was that her life was her own. Their lives were not their own. She would live just as she wanted to. 2) There are days when solitude, for someone of my age, is a heady wine which intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic…Alone…and for a long time past. 3) Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don’t know. I got a telegram from the home:” Mother deceased. Funeral tomorrow. Faithfully yours”. That doesn’t men anything. Maybe it was yesterday. 4) Jerusalem is the great absent. That city founded a few thousand years ago by the Canaanites, their ancestors, where Christ died and rose – they’re never been there. They don’t plan to go. The spiritual Jerusalem is dead…It is no longer in the Middle East. 5) At this moment there are infinite possibilities, whole hours ahead. Her mind hums. This morning she may penetrate the clogged pipes, to reach the gold. She can feel it inside her, and all but indescribable second self, or rather a parallel, purer self…It is an inner faculty that recognizes the animating mysteries of the world…writing in that state is the most profound satisfaction she knows…She picks up her pen. 6) Beirut is boiling like a cooking pot! Fires are stoked under the pots in all the Arab capitals. The main thing for us is not to be the ones to get cooked! 7) Could it ever be explained how matter becomes conscious? ... The explanations will refine themselves into an irrefutable truth about consciousness. Choose 5 out of the 7 passages quoted above (75%) 1) Identify the passage (Title of the book and author) 2) Analyze the passage. 3) Then show in what way it is important and whether it bears relevance to the theme of the book. 4) Be personal in your conclusion if you wish to express yourself freely. Part II (25%) Write a short essay on one of the rebels you liked most in our course and the reason (s) of your preference (character – why the rebellion? What it led to? ...etc Note Your exam will be evaluated in terms of the clarity of your argumentation, the focus on the subject, the neatness and quality of your style.