Assess students' ability to apply formalist and reader-response approaches to a close reading of a stream-of-consciousness passage from an early 20th‑century modernist novel. Test tasks: identify and analyze formal features (syntax, diction, narrative voice, temporality, imagery, discourse markers) that produce meaning; demonstrate how reader-response strategies (interpretive horizons, affect, cultural assumptions) shape comprehension; compare insights yielded by each method and evaluate their explanatory limits in a concise analytical commentary.