Final: Comprehensive, Roughly

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Final: Comprehensive, Roughly

I. Matching

Instructions: Using what you know about words and the way they work, match the word in column A with the word in column B with which it shares the most in common. Write the matching word beside its mate in column A. If you suffer from test anxiety, go directly to Part iv.

A		B
crypt	_________	bear
commentary	_________	stream
quality	_________	class
bare	_________	selection
soul	_________	quantity
Descartes	_________	momentary
current	_________	cryptic
election	_________	currency
channel	_________	sole
class	_________	Dehorse

II. Fill in the Blank

Instructions: Fill in the missing word, number, or phrase.

1. a. _________ is too much to pay for one week's worth of groceries.

2. b. I consider myself a(n) _________.

3. c. When I spin in place with my eyes closed, I feel _________.

III. True or False

Instructions: With a magic marker, blot out the statements you consider to be true. In ten words or less, classify the statements you consider to be false in the space at the bottom of this page.

You can't always get what you want.

I've been a miner for a heart of gold.

I was sinking deep in sin, far from the peaceful shore.

There's pow'r, pow'r, wonder-workin' pow'r in the blood of the lamb.

The fool on the hill sees the sun going down.

I'll fly away.

It took me four days to hitchhike from Saginaw.

You know me, I'm your friend, I'm your pusherman.

I've flown the house of freezing steel.

You've got to pick up every stitch.

I've seen him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps.

IV. Multiple Choice

Instructions: Choose the best answer

1. d. ______ A better title for this exam would be:

   1. e. Shaking the Tree of Knowledge, Seeing What Falls

   2. f. Literati Pedagogico: The Final Exam as Literary Genre

   3. g. ______________________

2. h. ______ Where is America?

   1. i. East of Eden

   2. j. Under the Table and Dreaming

   3. k. Below the Salt

   4. l. On Top of Old Smokey

   5. m. In a Prepositional Phrase

   6. n. Over the Edge

   7. o. y = mx + b

3. p. ______ The Poverty Line:

   1. q. divided an estimated 12.7 percent of the households in the United States from the other 87.3 percent in 2004.

   2. r. termed a threshold, is set at $9,570 per year in 2005 for one person living in the United States.

   3. s. may lie close to what some Wal-Mart associates earn, after paying health insurance deductibles.

   4. t. equates to $797.50 a month, $184.03 a week, $26.21 a day, or $1.09 per hour of life in a year.

   5. u. is still more than what the majority of the world lives on, with poverty estimates worldwide usually measured as less than a U.S. dollar a day, relative to local economy.

   6. v. is an abstraction, regardless of the Dept. of Health and Human Services and the Census Bureau.

   7. w. is a convenient organizing concept for policy makers.

   8. x. does not inspire compassion among those in the upper 87.3 percent.

   9. y. is all of the above, and more.

4. z. ______ Art is:

   1. . true

   2. . beautiful

V. Translation

Instructions: Working collaboratively, find the English equivalences of the following.

1. . à la belle étoile:

2. . alter idem:

3. . Selbstbildnis:

4. . El llanto:

VI. Essay Response

Instructions: Using yourself as a primary source, and the lives of other people you love as secondary sources, construct a 3–5 paragraph response to three of the following questions. You may not use a separate sheet of paper, and your answer must appear directly below the question. Therefore, you must write tinily. Please don't ask me questions of clarification, as I feel that I have made this exam perfectly clear. In addition to the three elective responses, everyone must answer #4.

1. I was in a high school trigonometry class when I first realized I had something on my mind that I needed to get down on paper. I had made the connection between two words: Revolution and Evolution. I spent the...