thanks to dear Andre Carrington's ever so cutely passive-agressive e-mail regarding his beloved diluted NYU Liberal Studies class that gives him the right to deem the position so delightful to his ego, I now know what is on my final exam! joy, joy abounds.

• Section 12
• date of final: Wednesday, December 22nd: 4:00 - 5:50 pm
• one hour and fifty minutes long
• location: our classroom, 5th floor Silver Center
• the test consists of:
  • several questions asking you to group works of art together based on features they have in common. there will be images of those works of art in the room.
  • several fill-in-the-blank style items that require definitive answers or the completion of rather obvious phrases that should be known
  • two short essay questions
    • four options to choose from
    • plan to leave about 40 minutes to respond to both of your selections
    • in the ever-so-classic medium known as the "Blue Book"
• what will not be on the test:
  • Candide
  • Clotel
  • anything from the 18th century (1700s) and earlier
    • poetry
    • art
• which means what may be on the test:
  • ✔ Said's Orientalism
  • ✔ Kipling's _The White Man's Burden_
  • Stokstad's Nineteenth-Century Art in Europe and the United States
  • ✔ poems by Bei Dao
  • ✔ Nineteenth-Century French Realism (on blackboard)
  • ✔ Impressionism: Art and Modernity (on blackboard)
  • Negrophilia
    • Introduction
    • Packaging the Primitive
    • the Dark Side of Surrealism
    • L'art Jazz and the Black Bottom
  • ✔ Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children
  • Rashomon
  • Turner, McGill, and Gerow's Jazz Heritage
  • Satrapi's Persepolis
  • ✔ Harper's Framing the Margins
• pay attention to the overall themes dear Andre decided to isolate as titles for what we've been learning according to the syllabus - this may be secret insight into how his predictable mindset chooses to pose interrogation