This Exam's main purpose is to help students prepare for the MA Exam. Its secondary purpose is to ask students to hone their mētis by combining knowledge in unanticipated ways. Its format is similar to the MA exam: students will bring annotated course texts (including electronic works) to the Exam but no other papers, books, or electronic files and reply to a prompt during a full class period. (This Exam will give students a choice of prompts from which to select, unlike the MA Exam.) Replies should be clear and persuasive, making explicit references to course texts through summaries, paraphrases, and/or quotations. A bibliography is not required. Students are allowed to bring laptops to the Exam on which to compose their responses (laptops also can be checked out from Dr. Tirrell). Alternately, students may write their responses by hand. The Exam encompasses the assigned texts to date, which are:
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