Please read the following directions before starting the exam, a) Please answer four (4) of the five (5) questions in paragraph format.
b) All responses must be answered critically, using specific examples and
passages from the work to support your answers. (The intent of a “critical
response” is to offer a careful and close clarification of your knowledge of the
selected work).
c) Please number each response.
d) Reminder: All answers require textual support and include “complete quotes.”
Midterm Exam Content

Question #1 - "Beauty and the Beast" - Using supporting examples, please describe
the characteristics that make Beauty who she is? Based on these characteristic, is
Beauty a dynamic character (capable of change) or does she (remain static) and
unchanging?

Question #2 - “Little Red Riding Hood” - LRRH represents the feminine ideal that
young girls must follow. The straight and narrow path in all of its manifestations with
absolutely no deviation. In all three stories, submissiveness, vulnerability, dominance,
trickery, and empowerment all permeate. Give examples and the rationale for each.

Question #3 - “THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN” - The setting of Hamelin, the frightful
circumstances, and their decision on how to resolve their financial obligations produces an ethical dilemma for the corporation. There is an obvious moral message that individuals and government should not reengage on their promises, but is the story advocating a larger moral message for the readers?

Question #4 - J. M. Barrie - “Peter Pan or The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up” - How
does J. M. Barrie present traditional gender roles of the characters in the story and do
they undergo any form of transformation or metamorphosis? Please be specific using
examples a minimum of 5 characters from the text to support your answers.

Question #5 - Lucy Lane Clifford's "The New Mother” - In “The New Mother” there
are events, discussions, and manipulations that are prompted by dark outside forces.
Discuss the motivations that transfigure ordinary well-behaved children in every aspect into impolite, disrespectful, and destructive children?