<human>: I've got some sort of final exams of native literature coming up and I need to learn by rote a fair number of texts of critical analysis on a variety of literary works (novels, novellas, poems etc.). There're about 17 such texts and most of them have around 1000-1500 words each. And I DO need to learn them all by heart if I want to get an ideal mark. (At the exam, I will have to write one of these texts, but I will not know precisely which until the day of the exam.)

The exam itself is about 1 month from now, but I will be intensively engaged with other stuff in the two weeks prior to the exam, so I'd like to get this over with in the next two weeks. 

What is the fastest/best way to do this?

Can you summarize the given text in a few sentences?
<bot>: I have 17 texts of 1000-1500 words each that I need to memorize by the end of next week. What do?