Today's exam involved an essay (three hours) and nine short answer-questions (three hours). I finished the latter in one hour and the former in two. Although the essay went alright, here are my my and some of my friends' creative answers to the short answer questions. Personal additions are in italics:
1. Discuss Victor Hugo's Confessions
Victor Hugo thought he could see dead people. He was a very important author in France.
2. What was Charles de Gaulle's most important work of the 1960's?
Charles de Gaulle was an important French leader from the war era and on. He was for the developement of the nuclear bomb and was anti-Europe. He talked about this in something he wrote (did he write anything?) before he was outsted from the government by the back-stabbing French. (joke)
3. Discuss three works written by Andr� Malraux.
There is a plaza named after Andr� Malraux near the Louvre.
4. What was the major economic turn in France in 1983?
1983 marked the beginning of the European Economic Community (it was really 1959). Borders were opened. Plus, Spain and Portugal entered the European Union (that was in 1986).
We are a very creative bunch. We celebrated the fact with sangria.
We couldn't have studied for any of those questions. I wouldn't have ever guessed the questions that I had would be on the exam. Good thing I didn't waste my time learning valuable things I wouldn't have been tested on anyway.
that's crazy ... of course, i've only had one exam yet ... my drawing exam will consist of drawing the skeletal structure from memory onto a photocopy of a figure ... bleh.