Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Test Time: Questions

Real Quick class announcements:
- recitation of the passages we've memorized, three classes total
-Read Christina's blog
-google, "I'll go on" first result, read the article.....one man performance of Three Novels
-we listened to audio of the last couple minutes of the Unnameable

TEST QUESTIONS from class:
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read Sam's Class Notes blog entries for a review of the classes we've had...that is, this blog.
1. Translation of Dolce Domum: Home Sweet Home (to arrive where we started)
2. Plerosis - filling up - comedy romance - Joyce
3. What does mama lujo refer to in Finnegans Wake? Matthew, Mark, Luke and John(bless this bed I lie on).....four bed posts
4. Good safe firelamp! = God save Ireland
5. HCE, ALP, Shem, Shaun, Issy - 5 main characters in Finnegans Wake
6. Name 2 of the 4 imaginary lands in the acrostic poem in the beginning in Haroun and the Sea of Stories: Zembla, Zenda, Xanadu, Zafar(Rushdie's son's name)

*know the terms from the Haroun glossary!!!

7. How does Molloy communicate with his mother? knocking on her skull
8. What happens to Moran's son? we don't know
9. How much $ did Moran give is son? 4 pound 10 shillings, however that was unclear because the father insisted that he gave him 5 pounds......
10. Memorize the first 3 lines from East Coker
11. German philosopher, Nietzsche - Eternal return, from Ben Leubner lecture, closest approximation to coming to being
12. portmanteau
13. Metathesis - corpse +crops = cropse - combine the meaning with the words
14. Sabina, rape of the Sabine women
15. 4 elements of the Four Quartets: BN = air, EC = earth, DS = water, LG = fire
16. Who is Maggie (from the Skin of Our Teeth) paired with from Finnegans Wake? ALP
17. Henry = Shem and Shaun, also Cain, an archetypal character
18. Demotic language, dud language, colloquial
19. what happens in the space between the and riverrun in Finnegans Wake?
20. What does P2C2E mean? Process too complicated to explain
21. Haroun and the Sea of Stories is a profoundly referential piece.....What 4 digit number in Haroun and FW seem to be very concerned with? 1001
22. Ballad of Tim Finnegan
23. What is wrong with this title: Finnegan's Wake
(there shouldn't be an apostrophe)

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