課程名稱︰文學作品讀法下 課程性質︰外文系一年級必修 課程教師︰王沐嵐 開課學院：文學院 開課系所︰外國語文學系 考試日期（年月日）︰103.4.14 考試時限（分鐘）：120分鐘 是否需發放獎勵金：是 （如未明確表示，則不予發放） 試題 : [原試題中若干錯字在此處已修正，不另加註] [部分題末加註選文出處以利辨識，原試題未附] I. True or False: Answer with a "T" if you think the statement is true or an "F" if you don't. [2% each] 1. When she sees her husband, Josephine dies of shock rather than happiness. [Kate Chopin: "The Story of an Hour"] 2. Montresor is an unreliable narrator because he drinks too much. [Edgar Allan Poe: "The Cask of Amontillado"] 3. Lantin's desire to jump over a statue of Napoleon reflects his extraordinary joy. [Guy de Maupassant: "The Jewelry"] 4. Unlike Sammy or Stokesie, McMahon reacts ungentlemanly towards the girls when he first sees them. [John Updike: "A & P"] 5. At the end of the forty-day fast, the young ladies selected to help the Hunger Artist are for show only because the impresario knows that they will be largely useless in assisting the Artist to the table. [Franz Kafka: "A Hunger Artist"] 6. For some reason, the Thing withdraws from the full moon. [A. S. Byatt: "The Thing in the Forest"] 7. At the end of the story, June May finally accepts her mother's quirks and flaws by using the phrase "let it go" grammatically. [Amy Tan: "A Pair of Tickets"] 8. In both "The Shabbat" and "A Pair of Tickets" an artefact is used to signal family presence during a time of military conflict. In the former, it is an American doll, while it is a bracelet in the latter. II. Multiple Choice: Choose the most suitable answer for each of the following questions. [2% each] 1. What about the protagonist's mother in "A Pair of Tickets" is untrue? a) Her name can mean "Long-Cherished Wish." b) Her name can mean "Long-Held Grudge." c) The twins share the word "Spring" in their names. d) "June May" is named in the memory of her sisters. 2. Which of the following is untrue? a) Stokesie has a wife and two kids. ["A & P"] b) Barbara Ansley is Grace Ansley's daughter. [Edith Wharton: "Roman Fever"] c) Amontillado is a variety of Sherry. ["The Cask of Amontillado"] d) Alida Slade uses knitting as a shield. ["Roman Fever"] 3. Which is not an issue to the hunger artist? ["A Hunger Artist"] a) The smell and sound of birds and animals. b) The limit of forty days set on his fast. c) Meat being and carried past his cage. d) The glaring flashlight of persistent watchers. 4. Which of the following is not a foil for the protagonist(s) in its perspective narrative? a) Babs. ["Roman Fever"] b) Stokesie. ["A & P"] c) The impresario. ["A Hunger Artist"] d) Goethe. [Jorge Luis Borges: "The Garden of Forking Paths"] III. Fill in the Blank: Fill in the word(s) missing in each of the following lines. [2% each] 1. _____ is the author of a piece of melodramatic fiction that is almost entirely set on a restaurant over looking the Palatine. 2. _____ wrote a story in the every day setting of a supermarket store. 3. _____ is the author of a story in which a dedicated performer who ends up in a circus cage. 4. _____ wrote "A Pair of Tickets" based on issues she [felt about her ethnicity.][此處文字脫漏，僅記載大意] 5. Yu Tsun is the protagonist in a magic realism fiction written by _____. 6. _____ is best known for his Nobel Prize in Literature and his novel, "The Old Man and the Sea." 7. _____ is the author of a micro fiction that powerfully express the predicaments of women in the late nineteenth century. 8. _____ is an American poet and novelist. His style is mainly considered to be gothic in both genres, and this is fully reflected in his most well-known poem, "The Raven." IV. Definition: Provide the following literary terms with a suitable definition in one or two sentences. [5% each] 1. Exposition. 2. Memento Mori. [Latin] 3. Irony. 4. Metonymy. V. Short Essay Questions: For each question, answer in English sentences in 50-100 words. [10% each] 1. Explain the role of the barkeeper in "Hills Like White Elephants." [Ernest Hemingway: "Hills Like White Elephants"] 2. Discuss "The Garden of Forking Paths" in terms of the two historical works (Liddell Hart's "History of World War I" & the "Annals" of Tacitus). 3. How would you interpret Sammy's decision to quit his job? Does the act have any value or significance? ["A & P"] 4. Is the Thing in the forest real or not? Why (cite your evidence and examples from the text)? === 前三大題參考解答： I. 1. F 2. F 3. T 4. F 5. T 6. T 7. F 8. F II. 1. b. 2. d. 3. d. 4. d. III. 1. Edith Wharton 5. Jorge Luis Borges 2. John Updike 6. Ernest Hemingway 3. Franz Kafka 7. Kate Chopin 4. Amy Tan 8. Edgar Allan Poe --

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