課程名稱︰文學作品讀法上
課程性質︰外文系大一必修
課程教師︰王沐嵐
開課學院：文學院
開課系所︰外文系
考試日期（年月日）︰106.11.6
考試時限（分鐘）：120分鐘
試題 :
I.True or False
1.When Mrs.Mallard sees her husband, she is so ecstatic that she actually dies of happiness.
2.Fortunato is an unreliable narrator.
3.Lantin did not actually inherits 400,000 francs as he claims to a gentlemen he meets at dinner.
4.In "Roman Fever", the anatgonists are Barbara Ansley and Jenny Slade.
5.Alice, the little girl in "The Thing in the Forest"is said to have been consumed by the thing.
6.McMahon is a fishmonger who helps out the girls without ulterior motives.
7.Lengel is so strict that he teaches Sunday school.
8.Penny has a bunch of stuff toys to get her through childhood.
9.To Keats, realms of gold are literary domains ruled by different authors.
10.Richard Madden, who is British, pursues Yu Tsun, a German spy, throughout most of the short story.
II.Mutiple Choice
1.According to the characters in the story, which of the following is a less desirable type of wine?
a)Amontillado
b)De Grave
c)Medoc
d)Sherry
2.What is significance of the name "June May" in "A Pair of Tickets"?
a)To capture the essence of the narrator
b)To commemorate the months in which the narrator is born.
c)To capture the essence of her sisters
d)To commemorate the months in which her sisters are born.
3.Which of the following isn't Sammy's action of feeling towards the girls?
a)He wishes that Queenie's neck is longer so that there is more of her that he can see.
b)He is very sympathetic towards the girls who are being told off by Lengel.
c)He thinks that they are complete idiots.
d)He pats his mouth and sizes them up like joints.
4.Which of the following is not a foil for the protagonist in its respective narrative?
a)Luchresi
b)Mrs.Ansley
c)The "sheep"
d)Captin Madden
5.Lantin inherits several pieces of jewelry without knowing their value because his wife:
a)is working for the government.
b)is given them by some unknown lover.
c)secretly hides them from him
d)invests in the stock market wisely.
6.Of the two women in love Delphin Slade, who has given birth to a daughter of his?
a)Mrs.Slade
b)Mrs.Ansley
c)Both of them
d)Neither of them
7.Which of the following is untrue?
a)The denouement is the concluding part of a narrative.
b)Metonymies are a figure of speech that employs one thing or concept to refer to another.
c)The implied author is not the actual author but the narrator.
d)The novel is a subgenre of fiction.
8.What is the significance of the white elephant in "Hills Like White Elephants"?
a)It is rare.
b)It is costly.
c)It is sacred.
d)All of the above.
9.Why does Sammy quit his job at the A&P?
a)He is bored.
b)He wants to chase after the girls.
c)He doesn't need the job.
d)He is trying to be chivalrous.
III. Fill in the Blanks
1._____ wrote a swarming story with references to Ts'ui Pen's puzzling and complex book.
2.The satirical fiction about a clerk in the Ministry of interior who lost his wife was written by _____.
3._____ wrote a story of modern day chivalry in the everyday setting of a supermarket store.
4.The _____ becomes a symbol in "A Pair of Tickets", written by _____,that connects people and bonds relationships through a visual medium.
5._____ is the author of a piece of fiction that is almost entirely set on a restaurant terrace over looking the Colosseum.
6._____ is the author of the famous poem "The Raven".
7._____ won the Nobel Prize for "The Old Man and the Sea".
8._____ is the author of a micro fiction with plot that supposedly occurs in one hour.
9._____ wrote a modern fairy tale about girls coping after traumatic exxperiences after WWII.
IV.Definitions
1.Archetype
2.Synecdoche
3.Myth
4.In medias res
5.Antagonist
6.Exposition
V.Short Essay Question
1.Explain the difference and the significance between Jig's utterance of "we" and the American's.
2.Illustrate how external setting influence or reflect the internal conflict in Mrs.Mallard.
3.How do Primrose and Penny differ in their approach to satisfy the mystery of the "Thing"?
4.Discuss the irony in how Lantin is able to finally enjoy the theatre at the end of the narrative and his choice for his second wife.