Final Examination (template for directions and format)
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GENERAL DIRECTIONS:
1)This examination is in three sections;
Section III
(identifications) has two parts.
2)The time allotted for each question
reflects its
relative weight in the examination.
3)Read over the whole examination carefully
before
picking the questions to which you can give the most complete
answers.
4)Both this examination and your bluebooks
must be
turned in to receive credit, but all answers must be written in your
bluebooks,
not on the exam itself.
5)Answer in any order, but please label all
answers. Also, number your bluebooks
(e.g., "1 of 3," "2 of 3," etc.), as appropriate. Please
use one set of bluebooks for your
essays and a second set for your quotation and term IDs.
6)Please mark your choices on the attached
grading
sheet.
7)Budget some time for thinking about the
focus of your
essays, and breathe deeply before you begin to write.
8)The usual advice about showing the
significance of
your facts through general statements and about backing up your
generalizations
with specific examples certainly applies here.
9)In arguing a particular point of view, you
should
also show why you reject opposing viewpoints; feel free, also, to
challenge the
implicit assumptions of a question, but in general, answer the
question, the whole question, and nothing
but the question.
10)Always bear in mind the Fairbankian[1]
caveat: "
11)Chinese names are given in Pinyin
romanization.
I. ESSAY #1 (50 minutes) Choose one (1) of the following three questions:
A.
B.
C.
II. ESSAY #2 (30 minutes) Choose one (1) of the following two questions:
A.
B.
III. IDENTIFICATION (40 minutes) Answer both A and B:
A. Choosing three (3) of the following five quotations, please:
a) indicate as closely as you can the date and the speaker/ author/ subject/ philosophic school (of the passage itself, not the collection in which you found it); and...
b) give a sentence or two explaining the context and
significance
of this particular quotation (not of the larger
selection
from which it is taken or of the school/philosophy/movement which it
represents).
There may be cases where "***" stands for the name of a person you
should
identify.
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
B. Choose one item from each of the following five numbered groups (for a total of five answers) and give:
a) a brief identification (i.e., including chronological, cultural, administrative, philosophical, and/or geographical context where appropriate), and
b) a succinct statement of the historical significance.
1)
b)
c)
b)
c)
b)
c)
b)
c)
b)
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