Conversations 4 - Excerpt

Mr Fitch: And sixty percent are your mid-term and final exams.

Mary Jane: Are they short and sweet, too?

MF: (laughs) No, I’m afraid not. They’re not like the quizzes. They’re ninety-minute tests and require a good bit of writing in addition to the objective questions. The mid-term covers the first eight lectures, the Founding Fathers to Mark Twain. The final mainly covers World War One to the present, from Lecture Nine on.

MJ: So first-half authors won’t be on the final?

MF: That’s not what I said. I said it’s MAINLY on the second half of the course. Professor Addlestone will be keeping you, uh, honest with a few questions about American literature before the first World War, too.