ENG 101 Final Exam (50 pts.)
Instructions: In a Word or Rich Text document, complete the following items. You may use your
handouts, notes, book, etc. You may even communicate with each other. Save the document and
upload it in the assignment link for Final Exam. Be sure you include your name, etc., in the
document as directed in MLA format.
1. List the items below as if it this were a works cited sheet. (25 pts.)
Cite “Ozymandias” by Percy Bysshe Shelley your Student’s Book o College English text. Make
sure you use the most recent MLA guidelines.
Cite “The Life You Save May be Your Own” by Flannery O’Connor from this web link:
http://faculty.smu.edu/nschwart/2312/lifeyousave.htm . Make sure you use the most recent MLA
guidelines.
Locate a print copy (as in from a library or bookstore) of Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du
Bois and cite it. Note: Likely you will secure a reprinted copy. This work was first published in
1903. Make sure you use the most recent MLA guidelines.
Look up actual grace in The Catholic Encyclopedia (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/) Make
sure you use the most recent MLA guidelines.
Using AVL, locate Hal Blythe’s 1989 article titled “Faulkner’s ‘A Rose for Emily” and cite it.
Make sure you use the most recent MLA guidelines.
2. Write a thesis statement for a descriptive essay. Be sure to include a dominant impression.
Avoid using a linking verb. Hint: You wrote a descriptive essay this semester and hopefully it
had a good thesis statement. (5 pts.)
Rewrite the following paragraph and proof for the items indicated.
James Silverman present his charagter Sidney, the night watchman, as comically incompetent.
For example, when walking the perimeter of the cemetery he allowed the grave robbers to slip
through the fenceAs Sidney walks along with his “flashlight trembling in his hand, he closes his
eyes at each sound and mutters “no ghost, no ghost, no ghost” p. 26. The irony, of course, is that
there are no ghosts, instead, it are the grave robbers that he is hired to guard against. You see this
is not the only incident of ironic bumbling that Silverman used to show Sidney’s incompetence.
Sidney actually assists the grave robbers at one point when they arriv posing as UPS workers. I
think one of the clearest example is when the attractive, female graverobber drives up in the UPS
truck, “Sidney, fumbling for words, holding his ponderous stomach in, and trying to straighten
his generally ruffled uniform[…] loads the artifacts without question [while] smiling at her”. (77)
Again, Silvermen demonstrates with comic irony Sidneys ineptitude as he surrenders his
attention and the valuable artifacts to a pretty face. You see similar actions continue throughout
the novel, making Sidney an endearing, yet comically incompitent character.
3. Proof for formal, standard English. (5 pts.)
4. Proof for MLA. (5 pts.)
5. Proof for grammatical errors. (5 pts.)
6. Proof for mechanics, such as punctuation, etc. (5 pts.)
(updated fall 2015)