, , , over both Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness.
The purpose is to make sure you've read/studied/absorbed enough content to write credibly about them later on--whether as part of the semester test next week or on the AP exam in May. There will be no written responses, so this will not assess interpretation, critical thinking about works, or stylistic analysis.
On the other hand, don't think that all the questions will be easy. There will be quotes, but these are "plot quotes" for which the purpose is to use the information in the quotation to identify the speaker or some other (underlined) person, place, or thing referred to in the quotation. There will be multiple choice questions, as well as questions geared to your knowledge of who's who. As you know, particularly with Heart of Darkness, there are many characters who are important but who lack "names"--and yet they play a role in Marlow's account of his time in Africa.
The point: it's too late to reread the work (and I didn't intend for you to do that anyway), but I DO expect that some concentrated review will be useful.
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