課程名稱︰西洋文學概論二
課程性質︰外文系群組必修(西概一二與歐洲文學四選三)
課程教師︰古佳艷
開課學院：文學院
開課系所︰外國語文學系
考試日期（年月日）︰2014.5.15
考試時限（分鐘）：約60分鐘
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試題 :
[姜台芬班]
[範圍：
Virgil, Aeneid, Book 1, 2, 4, 6
Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book 1 <Apollo and Daphne>, <Jove and Io>
Book 5 <Ceres and Proserpina>
Marie de France, Lanval
Boccaccio,Decameron, <The misplaced cradle>, <Griselda> ]
[試題開始]
Introduction to Western Literature
Test Two
I. Identification: 36%
1. Who is this fatally wounded woman?
Unlucky woman, burning, in her madness
Roamed through all the city, like a doe
Hit by an arrow shot from far away
By a shepherd hunting in the Cretan woods --
Hit by surprise, nor could the hunter see
His flying steel had fixed itself in her;
But though she runs for life through copse and glade
The fatal shaft clings to her side.
2. Who is this man who threw his spear at the horse?
He boke off then
And rifled his big spear with all his might
Against the horse's flank, the curve of belly.
It stuck there trembling, and the rounded hull
Reverberated groaning at the blow.
3. Who is this old man?
Seeing his city captive, seeing his own
Royal portals rent apart, his enemies
In the inner rooms, the old man uselessly
Put on his shoulders, shaking with old age,
Armor unused for years, belted a sword on,
And made for the massed enemy to die.
4. Who is speaking?
"What are you doing with such manly arms,
lascivious boy? That bow befits our brawn,
wherewith we deal out wounds to savage beasts
and other mortal foes, unerringly:
just now with our innumerable arrows
we managed to lay low the might Python,
whose pestilential belly covered acres!
Content yourself with kindling love affairs
with your wee torch -- and don't claim our glory!"
5. Who is this sad man?
Alone in his chamber, distraught and anguished, he called his beloved
repeatedly, but to no avail. He lamented and sighed, fainting from time
to time; a hundred times he cried to her to have mercy, to come and
speak with her beloved. He cursed his heart and his mouth and it was a
wonder he did not kill himself. His cries and moans were not loud
enough nor his agitation and torment such that she would have mercy on
him, or even permit him to see her. Alas what will he do?
6. Who is this miserable woman?
Having no arms, she could not stretch them out
in supplication to her warden, Argus;
and when she tried to utter a complaint
she only mooed -- a sound which terrified her,
fearful as she now was of her own voice.
7. Who is the speaker of the following passage?
... I shall dispatch you safely with an escort,
Provisioned from my stores. Or would you care
To join us in this realm on equal terms?
The city I build is yours; hual up your ships;
Trojan and Tyrian will be all one to me.
8. Who is the "she" in this following passage?
... on hearing Adriano's voice, she realized at once whose bed she was
sharing. So being a person of some intelligence, she promptly got up
without a word, seized her baby's cradle, and having picked her way
across the room, which was in total darkness, she set the cradle down
beside the bed in which her daughter was sleeping and scrambled in
beside her.
9. Who is speaking?
I well believe that you do not like this kind of pleasure. I have been
told often enough that you have no desire for women. You have well-
trained young men and enjoy yourself with them. Base coward, wicked
recreant, my lord is extremely unfortunate to have suffered you near
him. I think he may have lost his salvation because of it.
10. Who is this "terrified goddess"?
Dis saw her, seized her and carried her off;
his love was that hasty. The terrified goddess cried out
for her mother, her playmates -- but for her mother most often,
since she had torn the uppermost seam of her garment,
and tha gathered flowers rained down from her negligent tunic;
because of her tender years and her childish simplicity,
even this loss could move her to maiden sorrow.
11. Who is this young bride?
Along with her new clothes, the young bride appeared to take on a new
lease of life, and she seemed a different woman entirely. Shw was
endowed, as we had said, with a fine figure and beautiful features, and
lovely as she already was, she now acquired so confident, graceful and
decorous a manner that she could have been taken for the daughter of
... some great nobleman ...
12. What is this tree simile about?
And just as when the north winds from the Alps
This way and that contend among themselves
To tear away an oaktree hale with age,
The wind and tree cry, and the buffeted trunk
Showers high foliage to earth, but holds
On bedrock, for the roots go down as far
Into the underworld as cresting boughs
Go up in heaven's air: just so this captain,
Buffeted by a gale of pleas
This way and that way, dinned all the day long,
Felt their moving power in his great heart,
And yet his will stood fast; tears fell in vain.
II. Definition: Write a short passage of 25 words to define or explain any FOUR
of the following terms. 20%
1. Avalon
2. fabliaux
3. Sinon
4. pietas
5. Arethusa
6. vision of hindsight
III. Essay Questions: Write a short essay to answer each question. 44%
Answer ONE of the following two questions. 24%
1. Discuss the characteristics of an ideal Roman hero. Draw specific
examples from Books 2 and 4 of the Aeneid to illustrate your points.
2. Discuss the male characters in Books 1 & 5 of Ovid's Metamorphoses.
How do these stories reveal Ovid's views and patriarchal Roman society?
In what ways Metamorphoses is anti-Aeneid?
Answer ONE of the following two questions. 20%
3. Point out the places where Marie de France builds our compassion for
Lanval. How does this affect our attitude toward the Arthurian court?
4. Do you agree that Boccaccio expresses unconventional moral values in
Decameron? use the 6th story of the 9th day [the misplaced cradle] and
the 10th story of the 10th day [Griselda] as examples to illustrate your
points. Please keep in mind that the storytellers of these two stories
are aristocrats.
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