American Literature 2

For Whom the Bell Tolls • Of Mice and Men • Prof. Iman & Dr. Diana Dasouki • 4th Year, Aleppo University

370 questions • every photographed past paper transcribed • both novels narrated bilingually • printable cheat sheet

⚠ Read this before anything else — half of every past paper is now dead material

Every exam photograph you have examines two novels: For Whom the Bell Tolls in the first half and The Old Man and the Sea in the second. But this year's handouts set a different pair — Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men has replaced the Hemingway novella.

Question numbersOn every past paperOn your syllabus now
Q1–20 — Prof. ImanFor Whom the Bell TollsFor Whom the Bell Tolls — unchanged
Q21–40 — Dr. DianaThe Old Man and the SeaOf Mice and Men — never yet examined

What this means for how you revise. The Hemingway half is the most predictable material in your degree — five papers of evidence, and a fixed pool of about a dozen items that keep coming back word for word. The Steinbeck half has no past-paper evidence at all. Every prediction on that side is inferred from how Dr. Diana examined the novella she dropped: symbols, missing words in quoted sentences, character traits, and “choose the correct answer”. That is where your real risk sits, and where the reading matters.

The superseded questions are all still here, tagged Superseded and hidden behind a filter, because the format of those items is exactly the format you will meet — only the novel has changed.

★ Start here

All Previous Exams 170 QsEvery photographed paper with its printed answer grid — 2025/2026, Second Term 2025, 2024/2025, plus the older 50-item papers. Keys checked, repeats starred, disputed keys flagged, superseded half hidden by default. Cheat SheetThe fixed pool, both casts, every number, the vocabulary list, the literary terms, the symbols, the broken keys, and the last ten minutes before you go in. Printable on A4. Both Novels — bilingualEach novel narrated end to end, English beside Arabic, with plot-arc diagrams — and a closing comparison of the two, which is exactly what a “compare the techniques” question would want.

For Whom the Bell Tolls — Prof. Iman (live, high confidence)

Part 1 — Lectures 1–4 50 QsHemingway's life and wounds • the seven elements of the code hero • the Spanish Civil War • the Donne epigraph • Chapters 1–2 and the first quarrel Part 2 — Lectures 5–9 50 QsMaria and Pilar • El Sordo's hill • horses against planes • the theft of the detonators • the bridge and the last page

Of Mice and Men — Dr. Diana (new, no past papers exist)

Part 1 — Lectures 1–5 50 QsThe Great Depression and the Dust Bowl • the whole character file • Soledad • Chapters 1–2, the mouse and the dream Part 2 — Lectures 6–10 50 QsCandy's dog • Crooks' room • the barn • the killing • the symbol list and the pages she marks “required for the exam”

How to use this in the last week

  1. Day 1. Read Both Novels, bilingual straight through. Two hours, and you will never be lost in a plot question again.
  2. Day 2. Work the All Previous Exams bank with the syllabus filter on “On the syllabus now” and the exam filter on ★★ On 2+ papers. That is the fixed pool. Get it to 100%.
  3. Day 3. Both Bell Tolls lecture banks, filter on High. This half is winnable outright.
  4. Day 4–5. Both Of Mice and Men banks, unfiltered — and read the novella itself if you can. This is the half with no safety net.
  5. Day 6. The rest of the exam bank. Then switch the syllabus filter to “Only superseded” for twenty minutes, not to learn the answers but to see the shapes of the questions she writes about a novella.
  6. The night before. The Cheat Sheet, printed. Nothing else.