Final Exam Information

The exam is scheduled for Apr. 14, 9:00 a.m. (3 hours), KIN 205. But check the official schedule closer to the date in case there is any change to the room. Of course those of you who need special accommodation will have received from the Exam's Office specific information about the duration of the exam and the room.

It will cover everything we have read since the last exam, with the exception of the "Epitaph of Agapius". That means:

R.M.L. 9.1: Charlemagne’s Capitulare episcoporum.
9:3 Paul the Deacon
11.1: William of Poitiers
11.3: The book of Winchester
13.1: Baudri of Bourgueil

M.M. 148-150: Robert the Monk

R.M.L. 17.3: Peter Abelard
17.4: Heloise

R.M.L. 15.1: Carmina Cantabrigensia
M.M. 136-7 Cambridge Songs
M.M. 224 ff.: Carmina Burana [I - IV]

As I have said before, don't try to second-guess me. If it is on the list above, it could appear on the exam.

The format will be the same as the previous exams: Latin 327 students will have three passages to translate, plus questions to answer, and Latin 411 students will have on extra passage. As before, I want you to know the authors, titles, and rough dates of all that we have read: once again, you will have to use your intelligence to deal with apparent anomalous information (i.e., if the work doesn't have an author, you can't know it; if a work is dated to a wide possible period, then that's all you can give, etc.). The other questions will be like those on the previous three exams.

In addition, there will be one passage for unseen translation. I expect you to know all vocabulary on the list I gave you at the start of the year [the first link in the first blog entry takes you to an electronic version; here is the link again ]. Words that have occurred several times in what we have covered in class will generally not be glossed, unless they are very strange. Some other words whose definitions you can be expected to deduce from their roots, Latin cognates, English derivatives, etc. will also not be glossed, nor will typical medieval orthographical divergences from classical Latin.

The prepared part of the exam will be worth approximately 70%, and the sight 30%.

I have not decided on my office hours for the exam period: I will post those by the weekend. Of course you are, as always, welcome to send me questions by e-mail, and I will (within reason) answer as many as you need to ask.