Annually, GQ magazine publishes a list of the best gifts for men during the Christmas season on its website (gq.com). For example, here are some of the products featured on this year’s list:   As seen in the picture, they recommend J.Crew sweaters and New Balance sneakers as good gift options this year. If someone is browsing the list posted by GQ and clicks on the picture of the shoes, which redirects them to the New Balance website, this would be an example of:

Welcome to your midterm exam. You will have 180 minutes to complete this test, which has 27 multiple-choice questions with a single right answer, and three open-ended questions. Take your time during this exam and complete it while being calm. There is no need to rush, and you will most likely get a good score if you take the time to read the questions and think about the answers.  Remember that you are able to use a single paper sheet with your notes to complete this exam.   Note: I have added a calculator to the test. You probably won’t be needing this but is there just in case.

These are the results you get when you search for concert tickets in Florida: If someone clicks on StubHub after doing this search, we would say that this is:

A consumer was in the grocery store the other day and she received this flyer (see picture below). She scanned the QR code and went directly to the website. What type of traffic is this?  

During cardiac arrest in a pregnant patient, which of the following is true regarding the risk of aortocaval compression?

Identify the title and the author of the work: What don’t I understand?” I wanted to know. “Your heritage,” she said. And then she turned to Maggie, kissed her, and said, “You ought to try to make something of yourself, too Maggie. It’s really a new day for us. But from the way you and Mama still live you’d never know it” Analyze the passage within its historical context.

Identify the author and title of the work: As Reena described the events which followed—the break with Bob, her gradual withdrawal from the left-wing group (“I had had it with them too. I got tired of being ‘their Negro,’ their pet. Besides, they were just all talk, really. All theories and abstractions. I doubt that, with all their elaborate plans for the Negro and for the works of the world, any of them had ever been near a factory or up to Harlem”)—as she spoke about her reinstatement in school, her voice suggested the numbness she had felt then> it only stirred into life again when she talked of her graduation. Analyze the passage within its historical context. 

Identify the name of the author, the title of the work, and the national origin of the writer. Then analyze the passage. It is, finally, said that “our lack of many force and of self-respect is demonstrated by the supiness with which we have so long submitted to Spanish oppression, and even our attempts at rebellion have been so pitifully ineffective that they have risen little above the dignity of farce.” Never was ignorance of history and character more pitifully displayed than in this wanton assertion. We need to recollect, in order to answer without bitterness, that more than one American bled by our side, in a war that another American was to call a farce. A farce the war that has been by foreign observes compared to an epic, the upheaval of a whole country, the voluntary abandonment of wealth, the abolition of slavery in our first moment of freedom, the burning of our cities by our own hands, the erection of villages and factories in the wild forests . . .

Identify the name of the author, the title of the work, and the national origin of the writer. Then analyze the passage. The memory, to my dismay, comes back to me. Your destiny lacks nothing, O Niagra, you need no more than rustic pine to crown your terrible majesty.  

Identify the author and title of the work:   We wear the mask that grins and lies, It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,— This debt we pay to human guile; With torn and bleeding hears we smile, And mouth with myriad subtleties.   Analyze the work either formally or historically.