SESSIONAL EXAMINATIONS: 2022W1
Course Number: ENGL 153 Section Number: 001 Duration: 2.5 HOURS
Course name: READINGS IN NARRATIVE
CANDIDATE INFORMATION:
Candidate Name: _________________ Student Number: _________________
Candidate Signature: ______________________________________________
Carefully read and understand all the instructions before beginning the exam
1. This examination is worth 35% of your final grade.
2. Please read each question carefully.
3. Write your answers in the booklet supplied. Not this one. The other one. Put your name
on this exam and the booklet.
4. You are welcome to identify areas where you prepare your answer as “notes.”
5. Place this exam inside your booklet when you are finished.
6. Please double-space your answers.
Overview
This exam consists of four parts and has six pages.
Part A: Passage Identification [10 marks]
Part B: Narrative Theory Fill in the Blanks [10 marks]
Part C: Passage Analysis: Working with Narrative Theory [30 marks]
Part D: Essay [50 marks]
Special instructions
This examination consists of 7 pages (including the cover sheet). Check to ensure
that it is complete.
RULES GOVERNING FORMAL EXAMINATIONS
The following are the rules governing formal examinations:
1. Each candidate must be prepared to produce, upon request, a UBC card for
identification.
2. Candidates are not permitted to ask questions of the invigilators, except in cases of
supposed errors or ambiguities in examination questions.
, 3. No candidate shall be permitted to enter the examination room after the expiration of
one half-hour from the scheduled starting time, or to leave during the first half-hour of
the examination.
4. Candidates suspected of any of the following, or similar, dishonest practices shall be
immediately dismissed from the examination and shall be liable to disciplinary action:
• having at the place of writing any books, papers or memoranda, calculators,
computers, sound or image players/recorders/transmitters (including
telephones), or other memory aid devices, other than those authorized by the
examiners;
• speaking or communicating with other candidates;
• purposely exposing written papers to the view of other candidates or imaging
devices. The plea of accident or forgetfulness shall not be received.
5. Candidates must not destroy or mutilate any examination material, must hand in all
examination papers, and must not take any examination material from the examination
room without permission of the invigilator.
6. Candidates must follow any additional examination rules or directions communicated by
the instructor or invigilator.
Please record all answers in the UBC Exam Booklet. Please do not record your answers here.
PART A Identify the title of the narrative quoted below. 10%
1. I knew then I had to have a house. A real house. One I could point to. But this isn’t it.
2. He came out for the runners bringing up the rear and for the crowds on the sidewalks and
street corners, those New York mobs so oddball and lovely that they summoned from his
uptown apartment by a force he could only call kinship.
3. In one way and another he had made all his teachers, men and women alike, conscious of
the same feeling of physical aversion.
4. I already fought for these people. There must be something they fight so hard for. So I’m
staying in the army while I figure out what it is.
5. I'm a dad you might run into in the library reading to my small child, a dad in the park
carrying my baby on my front, explaining the world to him. a dad who plans to teach my
child to love insects and look at ants and caterpillars, a dad who'll head off in a canoe
with his small person.
Please record all answers in the UBC Exam Booklet. Please do not record your answers here.
Course Number: ENGL 153 Section Number: 001 Duration: 2.5 HOURS
Course name: READINGS IN NARRATIVE
CANDIDATE INFORMATION:
Candidate Name: _________________ Student Number: _________________
Candidate Signature: ______________________________________________
Carefully read and understand all the instructions before beginning the exam
1. This examination is worth 35% of your final grade.
2. Please read each question carefully.
3. Write your answers in the booklet supplied. Not this one. The other one. Put your name
on this exam and the booklet.
4. You are welcome to identify areas where you prepare your answer as “notes.”
5. Place this exam inside your booklet when you are finished.
6. Please double-space your answers.
Overview
This exam consists of four parts and has six pages.
Part A: Passage Identification [10 marks]
Part B: Narrative Theory Fill in the Blanks [10 marks]
Part C: Passage Analysis: Working with Narrative Theory [30 marks]
Part D: Essay [50 marks]
Special instructions
This examination consists of 7 pages (including the cover sheet). Check to ensure
that it is complete.
RULES GOVERNING FORMAL EXAMINATIONS
The following are the rules governing formal examinations:
1. Each candidate must be prepared to produce, upon request, a UBC card for
identification.
2. Candidates are not permitted to ask questions of the invigilators, except in cases of
supposed errors or ambiguities in examination questions.
, 3. No candidate shall be permitted to enter the examination room after the expiration of
one half-hour from the scheduled starting time, or to leave during the first half-hour of
the examination.
4. Candidates suspected of any of the following, or similar, dishonest practices shall be
immediately dismissed from the examination and shall be liable to disciplinary action:
• having at the place of writing any books, papers or memoranda, calculators,
computers, sound or image players/recorders/transmitters (including
telephones), or other memory aid devices, other than those authorized by the
examiners;
• speaking or communicating with other candidates;
• purposely exposing written papers to the view of other candidates or imaging
devices. The plea of accident or forgetfulness shall not be received.
5. Candidates must not destroy or mutilate any examination material, must hand in all
examination papers, and must not take any examination material from the examination
room without permission of the invigilator.
6. Candidates must follow any additional examination rules or directions communicated by
the instructor or invigilator.
Please record all answers in the UBC Exam Booklet. Please do not record your answers here.
PART A Identify the title of the narrative quoted below. 10%
1. I knew then I had to have a house. A real house. One I could point to. But this isn’t it.
2. He came out for the runners bringing up the rear and for the crowds on the sidewalks and
street corners, those New York mobs so oddball and lovely that they summoned from his
uptown apartment by a force he could only call kinship.
3. In one way and another he had made all his teachers, men and women alike, conscious of
the same feeling of physical aversion.
4. I already fought for these people. There must be something they fight so hard for. So I’m
staying in the army while I figure out what it is.
5. I'm a dad you might run into in the library reading to my small child, a dad in the park
carrying my baby on my front, explaining the world to him. a dad who plans to teach my
child to love insects and look at ants and caterpillars, a dad who'll head off in a canoe
with his small person.
Please record all answers in the UBC Exam Booklet. Please do not record your answers here.
