課程名稱︰西洋文學概論二
課程性質︰必修
課程教師︰陳玲華 (原古佳艷班)
開課學院：文學院
開課系所︰外文系
考試日期（年月日）︰960622
考試時限（分鐘）：一節課
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試題 :
I. Identification.
Suggested names from Agamemnon, The Eumenides, and Oedipus the King are for
your reference:
Pythia, Apollo, Jocasta, Orestes, Oedipus, Athena,
Clytaemnestra, Tiresias, Corinthian messenger, Chorus, Leader of the Furies,
Iphigenia, Agamemnon, Cassandra, Shepherd, Paris, Aegisthus, Creon (30%)
A. Identify the speaker of each passage.
1. First of the gods I honor in my prayer is Mother Earth,
the first of the gods to prophesy, and next I praise
Tradition, second to hold her Mother's mantic seat,
2. Yield to me.
No more heavy spirits. You were not defeated ---
the vote was tied, a verdict fairly reached
with no disgrace to you, no, Zeus brought
luminous proof before us.
3. So you see him, down. And I, the weaver of Justice,
plotted out the kill. Atreus drove us into exile,
My struggling father and I, a babe-in-arms,
his last son, but I became a man
and Justice brought me home.
4. And you are Zeus when Zeus
tramples the bitter virgin grape for new wine
and the welcome chill steals through the halls at last
the master moves among the shadows of his house, fulfilled.
5. So,
you mock my blindness? Let me tell you this.
You with your precious eyes,
you're blind to the corruption of your life,
to the house you live in, those you live with--
who are your parents?
6. He was swarthy,
and the gray had just begun to streak his temples,
and his build...wasn't far from yours.
7. Your ankles were pinned together. I set you free.
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B. Identify the pronoun or noun phrase underlined in each passage.
8. Agamemnon:
"Hoist her over the altar
like a yearning, give it all your strenth!
She's fainting--- lift her,
______
sweep her robes around her,
but slip this strap in her gentle curving lips...
here, gag her hard, a sound will curse the house"
9. Chorus in Agamemnon:
Bastions of wealth
are no defense for the man
_______
who treads the grand altar of Justice
down and out of sight.
10.Cassandra:
A lion who lacks a lion's heart,
he sprawled at home in the royal lair
and set a trap for the lord on his return
________
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II. Choose the appropriate answer for each blank. (24%)
11. In The Libation Bearers, Orestes, now grown to manhood, comes home,
accompanied by his friend _____, to avenge his father.
(a) Thyestes (b) Pylades (c) Aegisthus (d) Tantalus
12. Artemis, a virgin goddess, patron of hunting, and the protectress of
wildlife, is angry that the _____ have destroyed a pregnant hare.
(a) hounds (b) eagles (c) vultures (d) wolves
13. ___ belonged to the generation that fought at Marathon; his manhood and his
old age were passed in the heroic period of the Persian defeat on Greek
soil.
(a) Aeschylus (b) Sophocles (c) Euripides
14. In _____, the divine will, which is revealed at the end, is enigmatic and,
far from bringing harmony, concludes the play with a terrifying discord.
(a) Medea (b) Oedipus the King (c) The Libation Bearers
15. Niobe called upon the people of Thebes to worship her. " You burn incense
to ______," she said, "and what is she as compared with me? She had but
two children, Apollo and Artemis."
(a) Leda (b) Leto (c) Hera (d) Demeter
16. Euripides' Medea was produced in ____
(a) 431 B.C (b) 331 B.C (c) 531 B.C
17. According to Aristotle, the chorus ought to be regarded as one of the
characters, and as being part of the whole and integrated into performance,
not in Euripides' way but in that of _____.
(a) Aeschylus (b) Sophocles (c) Aristophanes
18. At the end of The Libation Bearers, Orestes sees a version of the Furies.
They are ___-haired female hunters, the avengers of blood.
(a) gold (b) serpent (c) blood (d) wool
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III. Answer TWO of the following essay questions (46%)
1. Discuss Aristotle's conception of the plot in his Poetics.
2. Discuss the images of the beacons or the net in Agamemnon.
3. Analyze the characterization of Oedipus and Creon in Oedipus the King.
4. Comment on Clytaemnestra as a powerful transgressive figure in Agamemnon.
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