re: My professor just told me my Midterm has 2 questions.

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Both will be random quotes from 3 books we were suppose to read, people it's done.

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"People it's done"? What's done?

Your career prospects?

This is a typical English midterm. 2 short essay questions. The quotes will be in context of the entire book and you'll be able to use those quotes to answer the question your instructor provides you. If I had to guess, your instructor discussed the quotes that will be on the exam. They probably discussed the context and had lectures that contributed to answering the questions themselves.

Now if you want to discuss how ineffective hour-long lectures are, we can do that. But don't act like you're getting blind sided by some new bullshite way of testing students. English professors have been doing this for a long time.

The first two years of required English courses should be automatic A's for anyone putting forth any effort. You might get hit with an a-hole teacher, but that's actually rare. Most of the time, if you read the books, take notes during the lecture, and put some effort into studying, the midterm and final are a breeze.

*Source - I taught 2nd year English courses at a university.

Here's some practice for you:

"Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other."

"Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat."

"Some men get the world, some men get ex-hookers and a trip to Arizona. You're in with the former, but my God I don't envy the blood on your conscience."

“It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.”

"You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget."

"Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind."

"History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake."

"And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shite."

"Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing."

"No one forgets the truth; they just get better at lying."

"It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane."

"The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves."

"I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing."

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Dang that's a lot, it looks like my professor is looking for more quality of content then quantity.

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I basically memorized the notes and probably wrote it all down on paper close enough to the point where I could've been sacked with an honor code violation

I had a test in high school AP English where the teacher listed quotes from a handful of English sonnets and we had to give the name of the somet and talk about it. I think that was my worst grade in the class. For my excuse, it was one of the last exams of the year and I was tired

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Math 4038?

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I took that math course at a school up here.

Are you new at college? Seems pretty typical.

Better than the 2 Question engineering finals that the professors know are impossible to finish in 2 hours.

Had a take home final my last year for a upper level math elective i should never have taken - 2 questions, took me like a week to finish and i still missed certain parts of the final solutions.

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e's going to pick quotes out of the books, and I'm going to have to explain how they relate to the story and shite like that

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that sounds pretty frickin easy if you have even a baseline knowledge of what happens in the book

Who is your professor?