Grade: 20% Total Grade (Graded out of 100 points)
Time: 100 minutes
I.e. roughly one point/per minute
DATE OF EXAM: Wednesday May 10, 7pm, 20 PC
LOCATION OF EXAM: C20 PC
Answer ALL 20
5 image IDs
1 a/v ID
4 reading IDs
10 quiz-style questions
Answer FIVE of 7 questions
1 (or 2) sentence
Answer 2 out of 6 questions (one from each list)
Concept question
full paragraph (150-200 words)
Answer just ONE of 3
Sections 1-3 cover weeks 8 through 16
Section 4 emphasizes weeks 8 through 16 (but also draws on earlier weeks)
b. 1801 in England
Bishop Berkeley, ÒWestward, the Course of EmpireÓ (quoted in Jasper, beginning of boomtown chapter)
I: Wilderness
II: Arcadian or Pastoral
III: Consummation
IV: Destruction
V: Desolation
Which of these 5 stages was America at by 1830s? According to Cole? According to other figures in that period? (Dickens, OÕSullivan, Douglass, et al?)
And which stage is America at now, in your view?
Do you think they would find the idea of rise and fall to be a comforting or a disturbing one?
A brief history of ruins in AmericaÉ
American novelist, short-story writer, and commentator
What will be the cause(s) of AmericaÕs future ruin, in BierceÕs view?
Why does Bierce imagine America in ruins? What political purposes does it serve? Conservative or radical?
British science fiction writer
Expedition to rediscover America arrives on the East Coast and finds the continent in a state of environmental desolation. They travel westward across the continentÉ
Why does Ballard set this scene in Las Vegas?
Why have people written about and depicted America in a state of future ruin? Implications for ÒexceptionalismÓ?