The final exam in 101 is discussed at length in the Final Exam Memo. If your students are nervous about the exam, recommend they read the Tutorama entry titled Writing Timed Essay Exams . Several examples of successful exams are given in the memo above. Additional examples of final exams can be found below.

Sample Exams
The following were submitted by experienced 101 instructors from earlier semesters. I have listed the main text, the possible secondary texts, the exam writer's name, and a brief quotation of the question itself. I am always happy to have examples and would like to add your final exam to this list. Please send me copies at goeller@rci.rutgers.edu.

Tannen and Gladwell, Faludi, or Scott by Brian Page
"For the final exam, write an essay that explains the sometime hostile roles played in public academic debate or the conditions within institutions of learning that contribute to hostility or violence . You must use Tannen and at least one other author we've read during the last half of the semester."

Gladwell and Boyarin, Dillard, Faludi, or Stille by Lisa Dewey
"Test Gladwell's model [of behavior] by using his ideas to explain or complicate the changes described by another author."

Tannen and Abu-Lughod, Faludi, de Waal, or Scott by Madhvi Zutshi
"How might Tannen's alternative of ‘dialogue' to the current ‘debate' model change our ways of understanding society and human nature? Choose any one of the following essays to demonstrate how Tannen's arguments allow us to revisit some of the issues raised in them."

Abu-Lughod and any other by Nicole Smith
"For your final exam, please reflect on this work and write an essay about society's influence on an individual's life—literary or real."

Dillard and Kaldor, Schlosser, or Nussbaum by Bob Abboud
" At a minimum, use Dillard's essay and at least one other writer to consider the meaning of globalization as a concept, and try to speculate a bit on what a global ethic might mean. "

Old Edition Questions
The following final exam questions use essays from the previous edition of

Nussbaum and Scott, Willis or Tannen by Richard Squibbs
" Using at least one of the other readings we've dealt with in the course, write an essay that considers the functioning of knowledge, power, and selfhood involved in the kind of cross-cultural engagement Nussbaum describes ."

Gladwell and Kaldor, Schlosser, Henderson, Faludi, Krakauer, or Barber by by Jason Spiegel-Grote
"For the final exam, discuss what Gladwell means by the “power of context.” Then identify instances of this phenomenon in at least one other essay listed above."

Loffreda and Drucker, Faludi or Nussbaum by Alex Socarides
"Using Loffreda's work and one of the following essays, make an argument about why crimes of this nature happen in society."