Test 3 American Literature II
Due during the final exam period for spring semester, which runs from Tuesday, Dec.8 until Monday, December 14. All tests must be submitted no later than Monday morning, Dec. 14, 8:00 a.m. so that I will have time to grade them. If you can submit the test before the 14th, so much the better.
Choose any 5 questions out of the 7 below to answer. Do not answer more than 5. Please type your answers in a Word document and then upload to the Test 3 drop box below. Read these stories and answer the question.
No Plagiarism.
(I chose 1, 2, 4, 5, and 7)
1. In Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire, what are the tensions between Stanley and Blanche? There are, obviously, tensions from the start. What are these? Consider the following: their backgrounds, their values, their perceptions of each other, their relationship with Stella, their expressions of sexuality, their cramped living conditions, etc.
2. In A Streetcar Named Desire, how does the relationship between Mitch and Blanche evolve? What are his initial feelings about her? What is his reaction to her story about Allan, her husbands, death? What is his reaction about her history, her sexual background?
4. In Eudora Welty’s Petrified Man, what is Mrs. Pikes attitude toward Mr. Petrie? How do she and Leota respond to the realization that he is a rapist? What does their response tell us about them?
5. In Sherman Alexies story This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona, what is the struggle for the protagonist, Victor? What is he trying to balance, trying to come to terms with in regard to his identity? Who is Thomas (Thomas Builds-the-Fire), and what is his role? How is Victors struggle resolved at the end? Is it resolved?
7. In Sandra Cisneros Woman Hollering Creek, why doesnt Clefilas want to return to her fathers home in Mexico? Describe the various ways out she considers over the course of the story. Why does she finally decide to return to Mexico?
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