Semester+Exam+Preparation


 * The Second Semester Exam will consist of a number of objective questions (multiple choice) and at least one essay question. It will be, at least for the essay portion, an open book exam (it will __not__ be an open note exam). So you may bring and use all texts from this semester.**


 * The Second Semester Exam** **may include questions about the following texts:**
 * Poetry by Walt Whitman
 * Selections from Emerson's "Nature" and "Self-Reliance"
 * Selections from Thoreau's //Walden// and "Civil Disobedience"
 * Poetry by Emily Dickinson
 * Stephen Crane's "An Episode of War"
 * Ambrose Bierce's "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"
 * The song "Willie Has Gone to the War"
 * "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"
 * Selected chapters from //Adventures of Huckleberry Finn//
 * Jack London's "To Build a Fire"
 * Kate Chopin's "The Story of An Hour"
 * Willa Cather's "A Wagner Matinee"
 * Eudora Welty's "A Worn Path"
 * F. Scott Fitzgerald's //The Great Gatsby//
 * J. D. Salinger's //The Catcher in the Rye//
 * Poetry by William Carlos Williams
 * Poetry by H. D., Cummings, Stevens, MacLeish, Frost, Hughes,McKay, Toomer, Chang, and Jarrell
 * Other poetry to be read upon taking the test