Directions: Please respond to the following questions to the best of your ability. You MAY use your book, notes, and outside secondary-sources.  Please do not simply re-hash class or DF discussions. Cite any ideas that do not originate in YOUR head.

You may NOT discuss any part of the exam with another individual (in our outside of our class).

DO NOT PUT YOUR NAME ON THE EXAM!  PLEASE USE THE LAST 4 DIGITS of your SS#.  Please type your responses (double space, 1 inch margins, use Arial or Helvetica as your font. . . so that everyone's exam looks the same!).

I'm looking for quality of writing AND thought, not quantity. I will NOT respond enthusiastically to endless jabber or poorly written responses with many grammatical and/or spelling errors.

DUE on exam day. Absolutely no excuses or exceptions. Don't ask, beg, or try to bribe me.  NO EMAILED EXAMS.

Directions (do 20; all come from excerpts in your Riverside anthology)
 

1 point	author's name, title, and year of publication
2 points	In a well-written and coherent paragraph, explain all of the following the context (what happens at this point in the book) the quote's importance important themes it illustrates in the context of children's fiction an fantasy.

1. "'And she forgets my name. I hate that too. . . . . . . It makes my heart hurt"

2. "'I call it stealing.'"

3. "'You see, I'm getting blamed for everything he does.'"

4. ". . . for from these dozen words I understood that the lives of all the honest men aboard depended on me"

5. "'Yyouu hhave ssaidd itt!. . . Itt iss Eevill. Itt iss thee Ppowers of Ddarrkknesss!"

6. a special lion

7. "All day long I was among the rocks gathering shellfish and only once did I think of the wounded dog, my enemy, lying there in the house, and then to wonder why I had not killed him"

8. "And I was glad I'd owned up, for Father slapped me on the back, and said I was a young brick. . . "

9. "Grief held her [an Eskimo] in a vise-like clamp"

10. "He isn't a toy. He's REAL!"

11. "I read once that they feed dope in chocolates to little kids, and the kids become dope addicts, then these people sell them dope at very high prices which they just can't help but buy because when you're addicted you have to have your dope. High prices and all. And [character name here], we don't have that kind of money."

12. "It had heard of the emperor's need, and had come to bring comfort and hope to him. As it sang the faces round became fainter and fainter, an d the blood coursed with fresh vigor in the emperor's veins and through his feeble limbs"

13. "Kill me, oh, kill me!' said the poor creature, and bowing his head towards the water he awaited his death. But what did he see reflected in the transparent water?"

14. "My hand is all worn out from all this writing, but I try to treat Mom and Dad the same so I'll get to Mom next time. "

15. "My mother died when I was born and it makes him wretched to look at me. He thinks I don't know, but I've heard people talking. He almost hates me"

16. She did not hate everybody. She did not. Everybody hated her, that's all"

17.  unwanted red hair

18. "The night was healed. Restored and steady lay the balance of light and dark. The shadow-beast was gone."

19. "They give us these ole books when they didn't want 'em no more"

20. "There was something else that held the attention of the men-- and my own. It was the unguarded difference between the bodies of the men and women"

21. Tolly, Toby, & Feste

22. What he was thinking was: All right. If he had to sign another one, all right. But would she just please stay open until he got back?

23. a singing hat

24. "With the strength of his imagination, he tried to fuse the music to the silence of his own Baldwin upright piano"

25. [Character's name] was more than his friend. She was his other, more exciting self-- his way to. . . and all the words beyond"

Writing Portfolio (10 points)

Essay (30 points)