課程名稱︰西洋文學概論一
課程性質︰必修
課程教師︰陳玲華
開課學院：文學院
開課系所︰外文系
考試日期（年月日）︰2008/11/28
考試時限（分鐘）：70
是否需發放獎勵金：是
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試題 :
I. Identify the speaker of each passage quoted from the Odyssey. A name list
is for your reference: Achilles, Agamemnon, Odysseus, Hermes, Zeus,
Hephaestus, Athena, Aeolus, Telemachus, Penelope, Circe, Calypso, Sirens,
Polyphemus, Tiresias, Alcinous, Anticleia. (30%)
1. Let me tell you of all the witch's subtle craft...
She'll mix you a potion, lace the brew with drugs
but she'll be powerless to bewitch you, even so─
this magic herb I give will fight her spells.
2. I could see their hands and feet already hoisted,
flailing, high, higher, over my head, look─
wailing down at me, comrades riven in agony,
shrieking out my name for one last time!
3. God of the earthquake, please don't urge this on me.
A pledge for a worthless man is a worthless pledge indeed.
What if he slips out of his chains─ his debts as well?
How could I shackle you while all the gods look on?
4. Away from my island─ fast─ most cursed man alive!
it's a crime to host a man or speed him on his way
when the blessed deathless gods despise him so.
Crawling back like this─
it proves the immortals hate you!
5. No, it was my longing for you, my shining Odysseus─
You and your quickness, you and your gentle ways─
That tore away my life that had been sweet.
6. you could wed my daughter and be my son-in-law
And stay right here with us. I'd give you a house
And great wealth─ if you chose to stay, that is.
No Phaeacian would hold you back by force.
7. By god, I'd rather slave on earth for another man─
Some dirt-poor tenant farmer who scrapes to keep alive─
Than rule down here over all the breathless dead.
8. While I myself go down to Ithaca, rouse his son
To a braver pitch, inspire his heart with courage
To summon the flowing-haired Achaeans to full assembly,
speak his mind to all those suitors, slaughtering on and on
his droves of sheep and shambling longhorn cattle.
9. Or if he's fated to see
his people once again and reach his well-built house
and his own native country, let him come home late
and come a broken man─ all shipmates lost,
alone in a stranger's ship--
10. I keep twenty geese in the house, from the water through
they come and peck their wheat─ I love to watch them all.
But down from a mountain swooped this great hook-beaked eagle,
yes, and he snapped their necks and killed them one and all
II. Choose the appropiate answer for each blank. (18%)
11. Leaving human society for nature, hunting and killing a fierce animal,
and receiving a wound conform to the pattern of male ___ rituals that
helped boys make the transition to adulthood. The story of Odysseus's
scar seems to conform to this pattern. (a) initiation (b) enlightenment
(c) growth
12. ___ has twelve legs, all writhing, dangling, down
and six long swaying necks, a hideous head on each,
each head barbed with a triple row of fangs,
(a) Charybdis (b) Scylla (c) Amphitrite
13. The second millennium B.C. saw a brilliant culture, called Minoan after
the mythical king Minos, flourishing on the large island of ___.
(a) Sicily (b) Lesbos (c) Crete
14. Seven cities put forward claims to be the birthplace of Homer. They are
all in what the Greeks called Ionia, the western coast of ___.
(a) Asia Minor (b) Greece (c) Crete
15. Aeolus offers Odysseus flawless hospitality, but he lives isolated with
his family and marries his daughters to his ___. (a) neighbors (b) gods
(c) sons
16. ___ had the power of changing his shape at will, and there in our hands
he became a lion and a dragon and many other animals, and finally even
a high-branched tree. (a) Tantalus (b) Orion (c) Proteus
III. Answer TWO of the following essay questions. (52%)
1. Recount the adventures of Odysseus.
2. Explain why Odysseus is a " complete man."
3. Give a sketch of Penelope as a foil to Odysseus.
4. How does Odysseus cope with the temptations of Circe and the Sirens?
5. Explain the role of Athena in the Odyssey.
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ANSWER
I.
1. Hermes 2. Odysseus 3. Hephaestus 4. Aeolus 5. Anticletia
6. Alcinous 7. Achilles 8. Athena 9. Polyphemus 10. Penelope
II. a b c a c c
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