課程名稱︰西洋文學概論一
課程性質︰文學
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）︰2009/10/29
考試時限（分鐘）：50分鐘
是否需發放獎勵金：是
（如未明確表示，則不予發放）
試題 :
I.Identify the speaker of each passage quoted from The Odyssey. Cite a name
from the list: Agamemnon, Odysseus, Zeus, Hermes, Athena, Poseidon,
Polyphemus the Cyclops, Aeolus, Calypso, Circe, Teiresias, Eurylochus,
Penelope, Eurycleia, Autolycus, Calypso, Alcinous. (27%)
1. I think it's best.
First go and wash, and pull fresh tunics on
and tell the maids in the hall to dress well too.
and let the inspired bard take up his ringing lyre
and lead off for us all a dance so full of heart.
2.Many a wayworn guest has landed here
but never, I swear, has one so struck my eyes--
your build, your voice, your feet--you're like Odysseus...
to the life!
3. Nausithous used to say
that lord Poseidon was vexed with us because
we escorted all mankind and never came to grief.
He said that one day, as a well-built ship of ours
sailed home on the misty sea from such a convoy,
the god would crush it,
4. 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
5.But once your crew has rowed you past the Sirens
a choice of routes is yours. I cannot advise you
which to take, or lead you through it all--
you must decide for yourself--
6.he killed me, he with my own accursed wife...
he invited me to his palace, sat me down to feast
then cut me down as a man cuts down some ox at the though!
So I died--a wretched and ignominious death--
7.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.
8.Sweet cousin ram, why lag behind the rest
in the night cave? You never linger so,
but graze before them all, and go afar
to crop sweet grass,
9.You must be made of iron head to foot. Look,
your crew's half-dead with labor, starved for sleep,
and you forbid us to set foot on land, this island here,
washed by the waves, where we might catch a decent meal again.
II.Choose the appropriate answer for each blank. (24%)
10.When Rhea bore_____, her sixth child, she succeeded in having him secretly
carried off to Crete, while she gave her husband a great stone wrapped in
swaddling clothes which he supposed was the baby and swallowed down
accordingly.
(a) Hades (b) Poseidon (c) Zeus (d) Prometheus
11.The Lotus flower in the Odyssey offers _____.
(a) beauty (b) youth (c) immortality (d) forgetfulness
12._____ was condemned to bear upon his shoulders the great pillar that holds
apart the earth and the heaven.
(a) Prometheus (b) Atlas (c) Hermes (d) Hercules
13.Athena in the guise of Mentor advised Telemachus strongly to find out
something about his father's fate. The men most likely to be able to give
the news, she said, were Nestor and _____.
(a) Menelaus (b) Agamemnon (c) Laertes (d) Eurylochus
14.Odysseus's maternal grandfather is _____, who excelled the world at
theivery.
(a) Hermes (b) Autolycus (c) Eurylochus (d) Proteus
15.The second millennium B.C. saw a brilliant culture, called Minoan after the
mythical king Minos, flourishing on the large island of _____.
(a) Crete (b) Cyprus (c) Sicily (d) Ithaca
16.When Odysseus consoles the shade of _____ with talk of everlasting glory,
_____ replies that it is better to be the most insignificant person on
Earth than lord of the dead.
(a) Agamemnon (b) Sisyphus (c) Tantalus (d) Achilles
17.Odysseus's adventures explore alternatives to "ordinary" (that is ______)
civilization.
(a) Greek (b) Cretan (c) Sicilian (d) Trojan
III.Answer ONE of the following essay questions. (46%)
1.Discuss the esteemed status of the bard in the Odyssey. When and where does
Odysseus display his versatile talents as a bard?
2.Explain the significance of the episodes of Polyphemus and Aeolus in
Odysseus's ten-year seafaring.
3.Penelope is a challenging figure, endowed with a cunning that matches
Odysseus's. Discuss how she figures out an ingenious way to cope with the
seige of the suitors, and how she tries to verify the identity of Odysseus
by a series of tests.
4.How does Odysseus survive the temptations of Circe, Sirens and Calypso?
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