Mal 608 North American Literature Question Paper
Mal 608 North American Literature
Course:Master Of Arts
Institution: Kenyatta University question papers
Exam Year:2010
KENYATTA UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS 2010/2011
INSTITUTIONAL BASED PROGRAMME (IBP) AUGUST 2010 SESSION
EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS
MAL 608:
NORTH AMERICAN LITERATURE
DATE: Thursday, 30th December, 2010
TIME: 2.00 p.m. ? 5.00 p.m.
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INSTRUCTIONS:
Answer THREE questions: One question from Section One and two questions from
Section Two
SECTION ONE
1.
?Literature is not only a product of society but also a reflection of respective
historical perspectives.? Discuss this statement with reference to three documents:
Thomas Jefferson?s ?Declaration of Independence?, Abraham Lincoln?s ?Gettysburg
Address? and Martin Luther King (Jnr?s) ?I Have a Dream.?
2.
With reference to two novels by either Nathaniel Hawthorne or Margaret Lawrence,
explain the relevance of North American Literature to African students in the twenty-
first century.
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SECTION TWO
1.
?Earnest Hemingway?s writing reveals an unhealthy obsession with death.?
Discuss this statement with reference to at least two of Hemingway?s Short Stories.
2.
?If America is the most powerful and the most influential nation on earth today,
it is because it started on a clean Date and has not had a tradition to pull it
back.? Argue for or against this statement, with illustrations drawn from literary
works.
3.
?Great art is realist art. This has been the case since Homer?s time because it
reflects reality, and this is the irrefutable intention of all art ??
Discuss with reference to any two stretches from Stephen Leacock?s Sunshine
Sketches of a Little Town.
4.
Discuss the place of any North American writer of your choice in world literature.
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