Final Study Guide - LLT 180.750 iCourse


IDENTIFICATIONS (20 points; select five out of eight)

Dystopia
Ivan Yakovlevich
Dwayne Hoover
Now It Can Be Told
Beatrice
Chorus
Major Kovalyov
Sibyl
Alter Ego
Plato's Republic
Creon Unreliable Narrator
Plato's Republic
Kilgore Trout
Augustus Caesar
arti manthano

MATCHING QUESTIONS (30 points for 10 items)

Haemon
Er
Thebes
Mr. Nosov
Jocasta
Lucifer
Penelope
Eteocles
Nevsky Prospekt
Francine Pefko
Ismene
Anchises
Julius Caesar
Praskovya
Carthage
Kurt Vonnegut

SHORT ANSWER (20 pts)

What could Missouri State University do to make the Public Affairs Mission more meaningful to you, personally?

Compare the ethical leadership of Antigone in the play of the same name to the ethical leadership of Kilgore Trout in the novel Breakfast of Champions. How and why do they discover their leadership roles? How effective is each character?

ESSAY QUESTION  (30 points; select only ONE)

Write an organized essay in good English describing how the material covered this semester addresses one of the following University-approved Specific Learning Outcomes for Public Affairs credit toward General Education.

  1. To conceptualize the key similarities and differences between the student’s cultural perspectives and those of the diverse other cultures, past and present, addressed in the course readings
  2. To analyze how diverse languages, cultures, institutions, and beliefs have shaped individual and collective behavior, as revealed through study of the literary pattern of “the heroic quest”
  3. To construe the student’s values and behaviors both in his or her own personal life and in the diverse society at large, as reflected in course readings
  4. To appreciate through application of pertinent examples the ethical dimensions of providing leadership in difficult situations
  5. To discern via the literary pattern of “the heroic quest” the ways in which individuals from diverse societies, past and present, have evaluated and worked to solve important problems