Quotations must be no longer than two lines. You will use quotation marks to indicate that it is a quote. You do not need to give citations for this test.
The essay should be well organized, well supported, coherent, and free of major grammatical errors. It should demonstrate deep familiarity with both texts — a familiarity achieved through reading, rereading, lecture, class discussion, study, and analysis.
The introduction needs to begin with a clear mention of the author and the name of the text. The thesis contains your main claim/argument and should be found in the first or second sentence. The body paragraph/s should develop the argument. You do not need a concluding paragraph but do use a concluding sentence.
High-scoring essays will be those that make specific, accurate, well informed, well supported claims.
Low-scoring essays will be those that make vague, inaccurate, uninformed, or unsupported claims or use AI generated language.
Essays that do not respond directly to the prompt cannot pass.
Prompts—each question is 100 points, Please choose any 2.
- Who are the narrators in “Sweetness” and “Apollo?” Why do the authors choose these narrators? Explain with reasons.
- How do the endings of “The Story of an Hour” and Things Fall Apart shine a light on the main themes of the stories?
- Identify four cultural attributes of the Umofia clan – food, language, pastimes, inter personal relationships. Why does Chinua Achebe describe these in details in Things Fall Apart?
- Analyze the main character in Things Fall Apart with examples of his actions and decisions throughout the text.