As announced on the syllabus, we’ll have the second exam in our course (of two) next Wednesday, April 3, at the beginning of our regular class meeting. The in-class exam will use the same multiple-choice format as last time. You’ll have until 9:30 to work on the exam, and then we’ll continue with lecture.
The rules for this in-class exam are the same as before:
The exam will only be offered in-class, not online. No laptops, phones, or books may be consulted while you’re taking the exam. You are however allowed to consult your own study sheet, which must be a single piece of paper with writing or printing of any size (and it may cover both sides of the paper). If you use a study sheet, you must have prepared it yourself, and must submit it along with your completed exam.
For multiple-choice questions on the exam, you’ll again have the option of circling a “top” choice and a “fallback” answer. The way it works is, if you circle just one answer: correct is +6 points, incorrect is -2 points. If you circle two answers, and top choice is correct, that’s +5 points, if “fallback” is correct, that’s +3 points, if neither is correct, -4 points. For more details, see the instructions for the first exam.
Students registered with ARS can arrange to take the exam at roughly the same time at their testing center.
If you’re unable to attend class the day of the exam, for example because of being sick, this time the alternative option won’t be a short paper. (Way too many of you opted out of the exam last time; that’s not the role the alternative was meant to play.) This time, you’ll instead have to make arrangements to take a make-up exam at the College of Arts and Science’s Undergraduate Testing Center. That will have to be taken on Tuesday April 9 or Wednesday April 10, between 10-4 pm. (We will have to coordinate with you to make this happen, so let us know asap if you’ll need to do this.) This make-up exam will require short answers (several sentences per question) instead of multiple choice, and will therefore take longer to complete. It will cover roughly the same parts of the course as the in-class exam.
The rest of this document is a list of main topics you can review, that have been introduced in lectures, in the notes on our course website, and/or in our readings. Be sure you know what each of these notions, theories, or arguments are, and what bearing they have on the issues we discussed in class.