Three tasks from the list are selected the day of the exam. Respond to the selected tasks in a

bluebook. Skip every other line. Write in complete sentences. Follow and respond completely.

Use quotations from and citations of the works in your response as support. Use your notes.

Place all the notes and prints you have brought for the exam together with the exam sheet inside

the blue book when you have finished. Total points: 75 points

Topic I: Discuss and describe five personal social problems that characters in the play Ghosts by

Henrik Ibsen share over generations. Three or more characters from Ghosts are to be described.

Refer to the play. Use quotations from the play to support your interpretation.

Topic II: Discuss and describe the scene after the end of the play Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen. What

does Mrs. Alving do? For example: Does she inject a lethal dose of morphine? Give five steps

she takes after the end of the play. Give a reason for each step. Refer to the play. Use quotations

from the play to support your interpretation.

Topic III: Discuss and describe two Romantic and two Realist paintings. Select any paintings

from the artists discussed in class: Johan Christian Dahl, Caspar David Friedrich, Thomas

Fearnley, Peder Balke, Adolph Tidemand, Hans Gude, August Cappelen, Lars Hertevig, Erik

Werenskiold, Ilya Repin, Vladimir Makovsky, Grigoriy Myasoyedov, Konstantin Savitsky, Ivan

Shishkin, and Emily Shanks. How does each individual piece fit into its particular school of

thought? How does each borrow from and inform works in different schools of thought? Bring

one print of each painting. Put prints in blue book at the end of the exam.

Topic III: Discuss and describe five recurring thoughts of two characters of Mrs. Dalloway by

Virginia Woolf. Demonstrate how the thoughts are regrets, frustrations and goals that the

character is exercising in order to find a resolution of a personal issue. Refer to the novel. Use

quotations from the novel to support your interpretation.

Topic IV: Discuss and describe the character of Mrs. Dalloway as heroic or anti-heroic? Is she a

character who perseveres and inspires? Is she a character who is a relic of a previous era? Refer

to the novel. Use quotations from the novel to support your interpretation.

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