ENGL 120 Final Examination Practice
Directions: Answer the questions below. Be sure to include examples of events in the
work to explain your answer.
1. Discuss cultural and economic forces as a determining factor in one‟s life as a theme in
“Another Evening at the Club.”
2. Compare and contrast the use of madness as both a plot component and the line between
reality and illusion in Hamlet and “The Yellow Wallpaper.”
3. Discuss the theme of choices and consequences in Oedipus Rex.
4. Discuss the theme of the fundamental question of good and evil in “Father and I.”
5. Discuss the theme of identity and selfhood in “The Story of an Hour.”
6. Except for the title, roses are never mentioned in “A Rose for Emily.” Why do you think
Faulkner chose this title? What do you think the rose symbolizes?
7. Discuss the use of symbolism in Hawthorne‟s “Young Goodman Brown.”
8. Discuss the use of imagery in “Runagate, Runagate.”
9. Discuss the use of imagery in “To His Coy Mistress.”
10. One critic writes: “Faulkner‟s extensive use of foreshadowing in „A Rose for Emily‟
prepares the reader for the ultimate and shocking ending fate of Miss Emily and Homer
Baron.” Do you agree or disagree? Explain your answer.
11. Discuss the use of foreshadowing in “Roman Fever.”
12. Why must Blake‟s “The Lamb” be read in conjunction with “The Tyger”?
13. Compare and contrast the characters of the husband and Amy in “Home Burial.”
14. Compare the characters of Abboud Bey in “Another Evening at the Club” and Alfonso II,
Duke of Ferrara, in “My Last Duchess.”
15. Choose one short story or poem studied this semester and discuss it as an example of
romanticism, realism, or Gothic realism.